Queer performance (adult performances):

• These are decadent performances which are unfold at pubs, bars, brothels or virtually any kind of space that is not a traditional ‘performance space’. Some highlights are:
• ‘Penne & Pasta Vaudaville Masala’: Performed at INDIGO in Mumbai, the story was about 4 characters, Penne: the stud, Tacky-tart: His Mother, Aesophotoeda: a courtesan from Ajmer who has migrated to Spain and Pasta: the past life therapist.
• ‘1001 Indian Nights’ : A Love story between a Hijra and a sufi (mystic poet), Designed for the Royal Tropical Theater in Amsterdam, and also performed at various locations in Amsterdam including the gay pub ‘SOHO’ the Coffee shop ‘The Other Side’, An fashion store ‘Saffron’, On the streets and also at the Royal Tropical Theater itself.
• ‘The Birth of Lizard’ : Lizard is a psychedelic puppet mutant who is half lizard half man, his pre-birth, birth, growing years, adolescence and finally death and rebirth challenge the age old theory of gender being a social construct, towards establishing a queerer gender, as Performative. This was a Performative installation with film and video projections on the three-dimensional ‘screen puppets’ performed at The India Habitat Center and certain other private venues in Bombay, Delhi and Amsterdam.
• ‘Puppet Therapy and the Electric Apsara : A performance for all age groups – this is the visualized journey of a puppet into her fantasy to discover the different aspects of herself. Moving beyond gender – the performance ‘deconstructs’ the ‘body’ and thus performs ‘gender’. The performance is designed in the style of a carnival inside a puppet studio.