Beyond the Land of Hattamala

Beyond the Land of Hattamala

📅 2010 2010 📍 TAPAC, Auckland

Two likeable thieves, Kena and Becha, jump into a river to escape being caught. After a routine heist goes awry, they wash up on the shores of a land, far far beyond anything they have ever known!

The extraordinarily naive residents of this country are nonchalant about personal possessions and this has Kena and Becha rubbing their hands in glee! Finally, after years of dedicated thievery without luck, Kena and Becha can get to reap their rewards.

Badal Sircar, one of India’s major playwrights, gave up the proscenium theatre and began acting in natural and created environment spaces. Prayas brought alive this arrangement at TAPAC to honour Sircar.

Director Rahul Gandhi