Jhalkari! An interview with children's author,actor and theatre director Neha Singh
Congrats on your latest play! Yet another woman’s oriented play. Is it a conscious decision or a coincidence? Very, very conscious decision! It’s funny that when a play written, directed by men that has an all male cast is made, no one calls it a ‘male - oriented’ play, but when a play directed by a woman that has several important women characters is made, it's called a ‘woman-oriented’ play. This just goes to show how deep seated our patriarchy and sexism is. I make plays that have interesting and complicated women characters, I don't want to call them ‘women oriented’ play, they are just ‘plays’ that have an equal representation of women, where women are not sidelined to ‘mom, sister, lover, wife, seductress’. Why did the play have to be a musical? It did not HAVE to be a musical. It was an artistic choice since I love music, am a singer and have acted in several musical plays. I also wanted to showcase the rich folk music of Bundelkhand through this pl...