“Singarevva and the Palace” (storytelling)

A narrative theatre piece that depicts the folkloric story of a rural belle exploited by her father, husband and servant.

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Born in 1951 in a small town in Hassan district of Karnataka, Laxmi Chandrashekar received her higher education in Mysore. She has post graduate degrees in English from the universities of Mysore and Leeds (U.K.) Laxmi has been in theatre for over four decades and is a member of the Kannada theatre group Samudaya which believes in using theatre as an instrument of social. She has acted in more than 25 plays, in Kannada as well as in English.  Her first solo ‘Just a Woman’, a feminist interpretation of women characters has already seen close to 160 shows both within India and outside. Her second solo play, 'Singarevva and the Palace', an adaptation of a well known Kannada novel, (also directed by Soumya Varma) has seen over 60 shows. Until very recently she was a professor of English at the N.M.K.R.V College for Women in Bangalore

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