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11:00 AM

No Such Thing: 'Big Pink Sky' by Nisha Abdulla

Rehearsed Reading

Big Pink Sky by Nisha Abdulla © Sunayana Smita

Big Pink Sky by Nisha Abdulla is the second rehearsed reading in the series No Such Thing

About the play:
Away from the toxic pink skies that cloud their world, Little Pista discovers a friend in the gnome who lives in the almond tree outside her window. But soon the unthinkable happens and Gubbi goes missing! Pista takes off on a fantastical adventure across the desert of the dead and its strange inhabitants to find her friend. 

Big Pink Sky is a story of friendship and hope for a shared earth.

Credits:
Reading: Lavanya Krishna and B.V. Shrunga 
Direction: Sunayana Premchander

About the playwright:

Nisha Abdulla - Big Pink Sky © Nisha Abdulla Nisha Abdulla
is a performance storyteller, playwright and director based out of Bangalore. As playwright, her works include Mi’raj (developed as part of the Indian Ensemble Playwriting Program 2015, and later produced by Indian Ensemble Studio), Blue is the Colour I Cry (Long-listed at The Hindu Playwright Award 2017) and Big Pink Sky (a play for young children developed at the No Such Thing Residency for Youth Plays, 2017.) 

Nisha is also the artistic director of QABILA, a theatre collective formed in March 2018, currently working on its’ second production – an exploration of the various shades of silence.

She has also recently been selected for the bangaloREsidency-Expanded at Schauburg Theatre, a theatre for young audiences located in Munich.

Big Pink Sky is for a limited audience of children between 6 and 10 years. 
*To attend please register with: programming@rangashankara.in.