Tahatto Theatre Group bring magical tales and a star-crossed love to Bengaluru this weekend

Tahatto Theatre Group returns with their most popular productions this weekend

Two popular shows by Tahatto Theatre Group — Remember Remember and Love in the Cholera of Time have been staged in the city recently. Playwright and director of Tahatto Theatre Group, Prashanth Kumar Nair, says they were revived because of the positive reaction they received. 

Audiences can catch both plays this weekend too. Remember Remember is a compilation of five fairy tales which are comedic, but also delve into complex human emotions.  “One consistent feedback we got from the audience was that they found the play to be surprisingly emotional,” says Prashanth.

The other play, Love in the Cholera of Time, bends the linearity of time and contains Shakespearean fantasies of love. It has been staged in many cities across India, including Hyderabad, Delhi and Chennai. The plot revolves around lovers existing in different time periods, determined to make their relationship work.

According to Prashanth, “It is comforting to know that Love in the Cholera of Time resonates with others, and that they also feel a sense of being trapped in time.” The play is deeply imaginative, combining the past, present, and future, and while the audience usually takes a while to figure out what is going on, it keeps them hooked. The opportunity to briefly rip the fabric of time and meld different periods serves as a respite to anyone watching the play. 

What is so special about both of these plays is that “they provide a way to have a dialogue with the audience without having to spell things out,” says Prashanth. “In an age when we have so many isolated experiences such as shopping and consuming media, theatre gives us a collective experience.”

Tahatto was started by a few people who met at a workshop without prior theatre experience. Prashanth says when wrote his first play, A Funny Thing Called War, he was exhilarated by the prospect of having actors read out his dialogues and watching his writing come alive on stage. 

Two shows of Remember Remember took place on September 15 at Ranga Shankara. The play was written in 2015, and has seen multiple performances since, so the team knows which parts work with an audience. Prashanth says, “The idea is still fresh and the cast does not feel like they have done this a thousand times.”