LITTLE STINT | Rihla (رحلة / रिहृला)

The work is an adaptation of Andreas Flourakis’ award-winning play I Want A Country. The story goes a little something like this…crisis in a nameless nation sparks the demand for change. Not finding that change, a group of young citizens seek to chart a course for a ‘new country’, a new identity, fresh values, somewhere they feel safe…Rihla is their rihla. The literal journey on which they argue and fight; mock and educate; reveal their dreams, fears and secrets. On their voyage to this new place, a place where they have no antecedents, they define a quest for a new world; to a place they can only imagine. A place where each of their expressions of belonging find space to exist.

Aagaaz are a community of educators and arts practitioners, committed to examining and questioning ‘what is’, to inquire ‘what could be’. They practice theatre and arts for social action to bridge gaps in learning, understanding the ‘other’, access, and dignity. The repertory members have all come out of Aagaaz’s first phase of community work in Nizamuddin. They co-produce, with playwrights and directors in New Delhi, works that allow larger audiences to engage with the questions that they and many others have to face on a daily basis and to include those audiences in the search for answers.