This is the story of Nandini, a beautiful woman who appears at a time of the oppression of humanity by greed and power. The antagonist in the story is the King, who represents enormous authority but barricades himself behind an iron curtain. He transforms a town into a fort and the humans into digging machines who grope in the dark searching for gold. In this soulless mining town, people forget the beauty of nature, the green meadows, the dazzling sunshine, the tenderness and love between humans. Nandini arrives to salvage humanity trapped behind mechanized tyranny. She eventually frees the oppressed souls who are toiling underground, but at a great sacrifice. The story ends in an unexpected climax after Tagore knits an intricate network of sequences that ultimately becomes a parable.

A multicultural cast, crew and musicians work with artistic and music direction by a young Actor/ Director from the west coast. A story written some eighty years ago comes alive on a contemporary stage with brilliant ambience of colors, sounds and music and intense tension that creates an exquisite theatrical experience of excellence.

Red Oleanders (Rabindranath’s“Raktokarabi”) always is a challenge for every director and at the same time an opportunity to find out another layer of Tagore’s philosophy. Every time I look into this play and find a new door opening for me. What fascinates me about Red Oleanders is, it’s abstractness and poetry, which allows your mind to travel across the time and space but at the same time, it is very close to our day-to-day reality. Each Character of Red Oleanders is a shade of a single human character. Various relations among these characters are the reflections of our conflict. In this production we are trying to understand those relations in an abstract imaginary space. With the help of set, light, music and chorus movement we want to create a space, where we can relay on individual audience imagination to extend the visualization beyond its frame.