Maas
Date: 26th November, 2025
Time: 6:30 PM
Venue: KCC, Amphitheatre
Language: Hindi
For Ages: 18 and above
Under AMI ARTS FESTIVAL 2025, Kolkata Centre for Creativity is proud to host Maas, a powerful solo performance by Jyoti Dogra, one of India’s most respected voices in contemporary theatre.
Minimal yet immersive, Maas strips theatre down to its essentials—body, memory, voice. Through her raw and deeply physical performance style, Dogra explores the fragile yet unbreakable ties between memory, identity, and the body as a vessel of both trauma and resilience. Personal narratives intermingle with cultural conditioning, as the play unravels the discomfort and beauty of inhabiting flesh and history.
Join us to witness this intimate conversation between the performer and the audience as Dogra opens a space of reflection through silence, gesture, movement, and words, which allows the personal to become universal, and the private to transform into the collective.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jyoti Dogra, is a theatre artist based in Mumbai. She writes, directs, produces and performs in the theatre. In the past few years, her theatre practice has moved increasingly towards making devised pieces which are not narrative or text driven but use the self as the starting point. Her work attempts to find a performance language through metaphors created with the body, voice and text. The material and aesthetics of her work is inspired by the urban Indian ethos, rooted in personal and collective histories, attempting to explore the very personal and finding the universal within it. Her practice is centered around making original theatre works that are situated in the present times and experiment with form and dramaturgy.
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
Maas is a powerful solo performance by Jyoti Dogra that delves into the intimate and unsettling relationship we share with our own bodies. Using minimal props and a raw, physical performance style, the play layers personal narratives, cultural conditioning, and visceral imagery to question how the body becomes a site of memory, trauma, and identity. Deeply moving and thought-provoking, Maas invites the audience to confront both discomfort and beauty in the flesh we inhabit.
