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Chickens "Sometimes a chicken is an egg's way of making another egg." / Robert Sapolsky

CHICKENS is a play about the relationship between human and non-human animals, especially with those non-humans we farm for food. It's a series of imaginative leaps - dramatic, comedic, musical and absurd - asking one essential question: what does it mean for us to live lives that are entangled with the lives of others, for better and worse?

A special thank you to Aparajay, Surbhi, Nipun, PAP, Maya Saran and all our anonymous well-wishers for their contributio...
06/02/2023

A special thank you to Aparajay, Surbhi, Nipun, PAP, Maya Saran and all our anonymous well-wishers for their contributions.

We are still developing our work further to bring it to more audiences. Our KETTO fundraiser is live. You can find the link below. Any support contributes more to this project than you can imagine!

https://www.ketto.org/fundraiser/chickens-a-play-about-human-and-non-human-animals

CHICKENS finally opened in mid-November at Siddhartha Hall, Max Mueller Bhavan, as part of Refunction 2022, an initiativ...
01/02/2023

CHICKENS finally opened in mid-November at Siddhartha Hall, Max Mueller Bhavan, as part of Refunction 2022, an initiative of the Goethe Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi.

A huge ‘thank you’ to Neel Chaudhuri, Farah Batool, Shweta Wahi, and Nidhi Kol of the Refunction team, as well as Saleem, Nawaz, and the rest of staff at Siddhartha Hall for all their help and support!

And shoutout to the “real ones”: Krittika Bhattacharjee, Pooja Anna Pant, Kriti Pant, and Saloni Mehta, who crossed the city at the end of long days to help greet and usher audiences!

(Photo: Vibhu Grover)

CHICKENS is a play looking closer at the relationship between human and non-human animals, specifically with - but not l...
15/11/2022

CHICKENS is a play looking closer at the relationship between human and non-human animals, specifically with - but not limited to - the chicken. It's a series of imaginative leaps - dramatic, comedic, musical and absurd - asking one essential question: what does it mean for us to live lives that are entangled with the lives of others, for better and worse?

It’s an ongoing attempt to satisfy our curiosity about the lives of non-humans around us: about the ways in which we consume them; the ways in which they’ve evolved with us; the ways in which they are familiar and strange; and how we relate to each other through rituals of love, sacrifice, murder, and play. It revisits the shaky lines drawn between captive and pet, wild and free, family and foreigner - between human and not-human-enough.

Thursday, 17th Nov and Friday, 18th Nov: 7pm
Saturday, 19th Nov: 6pm

Siddhartha Hall, Goethe Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan

Duration: approx. 60 minutes
Suggested audience: 16 years and above
Max. audience: 70 people (registration required)

Register here to book seats for the show: https://bit.ly/3WlGhw6

To contribute to our project, visit our fundraiser: https://bit.ly/3SMYPm0

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