By Sravasti Datta

A multilingual play enhances relatability for diverse audiences, believe Venkatesan Vaidhyanathan and Vishal Nayer. The theatre artistes, under MISF!T – My Interest Stays Firmly in Theatre, will be staging Blindspot, a multilingual play, which incorporates English, Kannada, Hindi, and Malayalam, in Bengaluru this weekend. “Having a multilingual play is also a way to encourage learning and interaction among various languages, which is especially relevant in light of ongoing discussions about language,” they say.

“The play revolves around Dr Anika Sharma, a psychiatrist, who has perfected memory reconstruction and returns to her ancestral home to take over a company as the new managing director. However, she suffers from memory lapses due to a childhood incident. The plot thickens when a man walks in claiming to have impossible memories of his sister, who was murdered in the same therapy room, which leads to Anika’s memory taking on a new shape,” says Venkatesan.

‘COMIC ELEMENTS OFFER A BREATHER TO THE AUDIENCE’
Directed by Venkatesan, the play is said to be a psychological thriller that follows a non-linear sequence, wherein incidents shift between the past and the present. Vishal Nayer, the creative consultant for the play, says, “Though this play is a thriller, there are comic elements to give the audience a breather. As a concept, memory reconstruction has been researched in psychology and artificial intelligence. However, we have taken some creative liberties.” The cast comprises a mix of professional actors and actors in training.