An immersive performance to give perspective on gender without generalisation
(WorldNews India)

It was when she was in London several years ago that Aruna Ganesh Ram went to prison. `I was given a prison uniform, I had to give up my belongings, and sleep on a filthy bed. I was even force-fed a meal of baked beans,` she recalls. Replay, which was devised in 2013, revolved around traditional Indian games This, however, was no ordinary prison. The Bengaluru resident was a participant in an immersive theatre experience of the movie The Shawshank Redemption. `Once I realised that for those few hours, I was going to be treated like a real prisoner, I started acting like one. I even threw a guard`s shoe out the window,`...