Скачать или смотреть The Last Letter — A performance based on Rohith Vemula's last note

In a short performance, Jana Natya Manch focusses on Rohith Vemula's suicide note. Three actors intersperse the text of Rohith's last letter with other texts, mainly poetry, to create a moving experience. The performance also takes up other letters, those targeting Rohith and "anti-national" activities. None of the texts is dramatised. In the simple act of reading and juxtaposing texts, the actors force us to look within and without, on the singularity of a particular tragedy and on the larger context that punishes a person for the accident of their birth. This performance took place at Studio Safdar, Shadi Khampur, on 12 April 2016, on Safdar Hashmi's birth anniversary, observed throughout India as National Street Theatre Day.