Vanapuri Vaathukaran

Language: Tamil with English subtitles

Every voice matters, even more so the ones that are often unheard.

Unfolding in a world nearing its end, this play follows duck-header and clown, Vaaththukkaaran, as he delivers the last letters of humanity. Brought to him by a woman in a broken coracle, letters carry voices silenced by war, migration, caste, protest, and loss.

Drawing on the director’s experiences, the work challenges long-standing hierarchies in theatre, where power roles are reserved for dominant groups while clowns are reduced to caricatures. Here, the clown is reimagined as…