The latest work by Indian director Sankar Venkateswaran is celebrating its premiere at the Theaterfestival. It sees performers engage in a seemingly open exchange while navigating the complex terrain of the memories and eyewitness accounts of Tamil people from Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka. They are centred around the burning of the Jaffna Public Library in 1981, which marked the start of a civil war. In an intensely playful manner, the performance attempts to expose the nexus between language, power and terror.
