ABOUT THE PLAY

The Caretaker is a 1960 English play written by Harold Pinter. The three-act absurd play is set in a single room of a house in West London with three men circling around each other's life. It presents a captivating exploration of power dynamics, identity crisis exposing the human condition in a modern city and the alienation followed by it. 

Mick, Davies, and Aston are mere conduits to showcase the larger political questions of the world. The Caretaker raises several intriguing and heart wrenching problems of refugee crisis, racism, politics of identity, post war issues, and power hierarchies. Pinter while

talking about his plays and characters is very humanistic - ironically, his writings are not just that, but they explore intricate political intertwining of the time, place, and characters.

The voyeuristic ability given to the audience while viewing the play is the absurd irony of human nature that we all are guilty of indulging in. It is when individuals question and analyse their own lives that they compare each other’s lives’ ‘greener pastures’ and introspect their life’s timeline.

ABOUT THE TEAM

The team is a bunch of theatre enthusiasts hailing from diverse backgrounds who have come together to perform plays in Manipal - this is their first step towards building a thriving theatre space beyond the college campuses in Manipal. They've performed The Caretaker at prestigious venues like Manipal University and Udupi's MGM College. They've performed at Rangashankara in Bengaluru and will be performing at the esteemed MILAP festival.

Directors

Venumadhav Bhat

Abhinav Grover

Cast

Hrishabh Kanti

Abhijeet Singh

Abhinav Grover

Costumes, Make up & Set Design

Shruti Bangera

Assistant Directors

Trisha Shetty & Dhawal Dixit

Sound

Adwitiya Shukla

Lights

Aaryan Tandon

Poster Design

Gopalkrishna Bhat

EVENT DETAILS

31st January, Wednesday

1st February, Thursday

8:00 pm

125 minutes (10 minute interval)

16+