A perpetual act of churning

Turning and turning in the widening gyre. The falcon cannot hear the falconer. Things fall apart…

The centre cannot hold

. The centre is the core of something. Here, that ‘something’ is, relating. Relating of the only two entities that exist the I, and the Collective. The two cannot but relate.
I, the self, the individual, finds itself in a scheme of things that is often at odds with its desires. A collection of such I’s becomes a collective, which itself is a different kind of I. The both cannot but collide, cannot but pull in different directions, never to be the same ever again.
What is going on is a perpetual act of churning – of their dynamic, of desires and duties, of dreams and responsibilities – a churning of their relationship. The quest for knowledge, for love, for ideal action become churning rods. And out emerge questions about right and wrong, good and bad, existence and destruction.
Can the centre hold? If the centre will break into fragments, could we stay together?

Written by Sharath Parvathavani and directed by

Vivek Vijayakumaran

, the play includes artistes Abhishek Chauhan, Abhitej Gupta, Poorvi Sardar, Aditya Nair and Rahul Thomas.

The play The Centre Cannot Hold will be staged at

Ranga Shankara

on July 20 and 21 (7.30 pm).