South Asian Theatre Mela
2022
3rd & 4th November 2022
The South Asian Theatre Mela (SATM) is our signature annual event. We have curated this festival of performing Arts since 2016 and it continues to grow and flourish.
SATM is about offering diverse theatre groups a common performing platform to help them showcase talent while encouraging cross-cultural and inter-language exchange.
In 2022, SATM brings you Theatre Mela with the theme of ‘South Asian Women Speak’.
Director : Suparna Bobby Mallick and Joytsna Jyoti
Venue : Riverside Theatre, Parramatta
CHAINS OF FREEDOM
This is a story of five women who each have unresolved issues within them. The chains that tie the five of them together somehow lead them to address issues they need to free themselves from.
On a night when there is a power outage in their building the five women are forced to address their internal upheaval. While they try to search for their security guard to help restore the electricity, the guard metaphorically helps them find their own light within.
YOUR CHOICE
This is a story of a narcissistic man Ajay, and his wife Meera. Ajay persuaded Meera to marry him. He has strong patriarchal values along with aggression and insecurities whereas Meera, although educated and talented, is a naïve woman who in fear of social pressures, keeps trying to make her marriage work. Then comes a point when Meera realises that nothing she will do will make Ajay happy because she is not the problem.
