About the Play

Using an ironic juxtaposition of humour with the tragic and the serious, Padatik and Rikh's presentation "ho sakta hai do aadmi do kursiyaan" uses two chairs and two actors to tell a number of stories through intense and inward performances.

Zooming in on fragments from different individual lives, these apparently unconnected stories are linked by the emotions born of love, loss and absence.

The chairs become a mercurial, ever-changing metaphor as the play intersects urban relationships and makes the implicit statement that we are given life to experience compassion not to inflict violence; and that those who do not recognize the fragility of life may succumb to either an inner decay or to a moment of rage which endangers society.

The performance is an exploration of stillness and silence, word and image, inscapes and instresses and also an exposition of emotion in various shades.

The play has had over 50 performances in Kolkata and has received standing ovations at the Mumbai Theatre Festival, Sudarshan Rang Mahotsav (Pune), Lucknow Natya Samaroh, Film and Television Institute of India (Pune), Prithvi Theatre (Mumbai).

It was also staged at The Nehru Centre, London in September, 2007 as part of the INDIA NOW festival.

It was invited to Watermans Arts Centre London for a season of 12 shows (2008).