The Last Letter
Channel: The Lord Chamberlain's Men
Date: 2018-02-06

On the second anniversary of his institutional murder, a short performance based on Rohith Vemula's last note. Three actors intersperse the text of Rohith's last letter with other texts, mainly poetry, to create a moving experience.

The performance also takes up other letters, those targeting Rohith and "anti-national" activities. None of the texts is dramatised. In the simple act of reading and juxtaposing texts, the actors force us to look within and without, on the singularity of a particular tragedy and on the larger context that punishes a person for the accident of their birth.

This is an Lord Chamberlain's Men Production directed by Riyaz Usman with Antonio Montana, Sarvesh Brahma and Anurag Wate on stage of a text originally created by Jana Natya Manch, New Delhi.