F-1/105 presents a story of a neighbourhood in a cosmopolitan locality and a couple named Sagar and Mumu, with their plan to re-do the interior of their apartment by painting it in green. As the story unfolds, the apparently simple job of colouring, turns into a dramatic ‘event’, unsettling the couple’s private space, disturbing the emotional world of the Painter from some unspecific place called, ‘North’ and rippling through the surrounding neighborhood. The kaleidoscopic and darkly funny play in mainly Marathi, as well as Hindi, Gujarati and English explores perception of ‘colour’ in contemporary society by presenting shades of green. Weaving the personal and the political, the physical and the mental; the play takes us through stunning revelations of green colours’ associations and interventions, affinities and contrasts, connections and fears and striking experience that is internal to any colour, societal hierarchies and individual frustrations within the aesthetic and cultural spheres of contemporary urban society.
About the Playwright
As a writer Ashutosh Potdar has one-act and full-length plays, poems, short fiction and essays in Marathi and English to his credit. He has published Kamwalya Baya – a Marathi adaptation of Jean Genet’s The Maids. His other translations into Marathi include plays of August Strindberg and Dario Fo. His independent play, Aanandbhog Mall was honoured by prestigious R S Datar Play-Writing Award of Maharashtra Foundation. Ashutosh’s other plays include Naval Life, Pulakhalacha Bombalya Maruti. The play script of F-1/105 has received Ashwaghosh Award given by Bodhi Natya Parishad in 2013. At present, Ashutosh teaches at FLAME, Pune.
