“Don’t give the audience a spectacle, simulate their imagination and create the spectacles in their minds,” says Naseeruddin Shah

Hindustan Times | ByAnanya Ghosh

Sep 29, 2018 12:07 AM IST

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The thespian’s recent play, The Father, is a brutally honest study of dementia, and is penned by one of France’s best known contemporary playwrights, Florian Zeller

What shall I do with this absurdity —

The Father portrays the everyday life and struggles of a dementia patient , Andre, played by Naseeruddin Shah(Photo courtesy: Motley)

To get into the skin of the character and to understand Andre’s mental state, Shah had reached out to Dr Harish Shetty, one of Mumbai’s leading psychiatrists (Photo courtesy: Motley)

The play’s duct-taped minimalist stage is inspired by the stage setting of Lars von Trier’s film 2003 Dogville, which saw chalk lines on a naked stage marking the various locations of the town (Photo courtesy: Motley)

Shah got the idea of staging The Father after Paresh Rawal saw a performance of the same in the US and insisted that Shah should bring it to the Indian audience (Photo courtesy: Motley)

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Food For Thought
Ensemble Cast
Naseeruddin Shah
Imagination
Paresh Rawal

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“Don’t give the audience a spectacle, simulate their imagination and create the spectacles in their minds,” says Naseeruddin Shah

The thespian’s recent play, The Father, is a brutally honest study of dementia, and is penned by one of France’s best known contemporary playwrights, Florian Zeller

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