TFA supported by Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan are pleased to announce a new play ‘Innocence’ – A response to Franz Kafka’s ‘The Trial’. Written and directed by Anmol Vellani, the black comedy will have its first shows on May 10,11, and 12th at Max Mueller Bhavan, Indiranagar, Bengaluru.
Synopsis
Early one morning, two strangers arrive unannounced at the apartment of a bank manager (K), claiming to be policemen. They drag him out of bed, eat his breakfast, turn his house upside down, ask for a bribe, and inform him that he is under arrest. At his first hearing, K pleads his innocence but is ignored by the judge, who also refuses to disclose the charges under which he has been placed under arrest. Everyone he meets asks him to plead guilty, including his lawyer, but he refuses to relent. Consumed by his obsession with proving his innocence, he neglects his lover and fires his lawyer. He is arrested and set free and rearrested multiple times over a period of eight years, but he continues to believe that the scales of justice will eventually tilt in favour of a blameless man. In the end, K’s innocence does not help him to escape the clutches of the law, but neither is the state able to find a shred of evidence to prove his guilt. How will this impasse be resolved?
The cast: Ashish D’abreo, Srinivas Beesetty, Manu Varkey, Rohit Dave, Sanjna Banerjee and Arvind Dev.
The crew: Veena Appiah (production manager), Sreenivas Beesetty (associate director), Arun D T (lights designer), Bharavi (lights consultant), Nikhil Nagaraj (sound designer), Rency Philip (set designer), Appupen (character visualiser), Vidyaa Masand (costume designer), Garima Misra (costume manager), Ramakrishna N K (make-up), Manjunath Devraj (stage manager), Mythili P (photographer), Ashtronot (poster designer).
Tickets will not be available at the venue but can be purchased on bookmyshow [https://in.bookmyshow.com/plays/innocence/ET00396271]
TFA is grateful to the Spastics Society of Karnataka for generously loaning us a wheelchair for the production.