Ep.42 Savitri Medhatul on: Creating the Experimental play Lavanyavati

Savitri Medhatul is a Mumbai based Theatre Producer, Director and Documentary filmmaker. She is co-founder & artistic director of Kali Billi Productions. She worked with Junoon and Arts organisation founded by Sanjna Kapoor and Sameera Iyengar. Is currently a recipient of a multidisciplinary research fellowship from University of Edinburgh 2020-23. Savitri is one of the 5 member teams selected from India for Voices from Soth, a project funded by Edinburgh festival fringe 2022-23. An active member of Mumbai theatre circuit Savitri has worked with Sunil Shanbag, Akarsh Khurana, Vaman Kendre, and Geetanjali Kulkarni. In 2015 Savitri Medhatul (co producer Natale Tumchyasathi) designed a theatre production Sangeet Bari. This production is based on their research and the book written by Bhushan Korgaonkar. Using the form of Documentary Theatre this performance explores the lives of Lavani artists associated with Sangeet Bari tradition. Lavanyavati is the latest production designed by Savitri and produced by Kali Billi Production which premieres at NCPA, Mumbai in Feb'23. A production that explores the idea of Lavanyavati (one who performs Lavani), the meaning of Lavani and Lavanyavati from the lens of Legacy, cast and intersectional feminism and understand what Lavanyavati represents in contemporary times. The performance includes family archives and video documentation and live performance by hereditary,non hereditary and queer lavani performers.

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This episode is 23:18 long.

This episode was published on Feb 4, 2023.

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