{"id":329,"date":"2014-03-30T07:43:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T14:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/punjabisikhstudies\/?page_id=329"},"modified":"2023-05-13T15:23:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T22:23:35","slug":"performingthekm","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/annemurphy\/research\/km2014\/performingthekm\/","title":{"rendered":"“Performing the Komagata Maru: Theatre and the Work of Memory”"},"content":{"rendered":"

May 3-4, 2014 at UBC’s Frederic Wood Theatre and May 9 at Surrey Arts Centre<\/strong><\/p>\n

This performance event explored three plays written about the Komagata Maru<\/a> incident by Canadian authors: Sadhu Binning and Sukhwant Hundal’s “Samu\u1e47dar\u012b Sher n\u0101l \u1e6cakkar” (in Punjabi), Sharon Pollock’s “The Komagata Maru Incident” (in English), and Ajmer Rode’s “K\u0101m\u0101g\u0101t\u0101 M\u0101r\u016b” (in Punjabi). We developed a single program that integrated sections of the three plays to explore how and why we remember the Komagata Maru, and how the creative arts augment and enhance the traditional historical archive. Students in the Department of Theatre and Film at UBC performed short selections from Pollock’s play; members of the theatre group “Rangmanch Punjabi Theatre” performed selections from the two Punjabi plays. The event was\u00a0entirely bilingual through the use of Surtitling. UBC\u00a0Professor\u00a0Anne Murphy<\/a> developed the script that integrated the plays, and was the Producer and Principal Investigator of the project. It was preceded by a Symposium, “Performing the Postcolonial,”<\/a> that featured a discussion among the playwrights whose work comprised the script for the performance. Sets were designed through a creative collaboration<\/a> of artist Raghavendra Rao K.V. with students from the Srishti Manipal Institute for Art, Design and Technology.<\/a><\/p>\n

Performing the Komagata Maru, photos by Ali Kazimi, Raghu Rao K.V., and Oliver Mann:<\/strong><\/p>\n