Sarachi – Through a Queer Lens
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Residency (Offsite): 27 July – 1 August 2026
Residency (KCC): 3 – 6 August 2026
Final Presentation: 7 August 2026 | 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Venue: KCC 4th Floor, Hall 1 & 2
Kolkata Centre for Creativity, in collaboration with Titas Dutta, presents Sarachi – Through a Queer Lens, a ten-day residency culminating in a public performance.
Taking Ota Shogo's Sarachi (Vacant Lot) as its point of departure, the residency brings together actors, movement practitioners, musicians, and visual artists to explore questions of home, belonging, memory, identity, and displacement through queer lived experiences.
Rather than approaching the text as a fixed script, the residency treats it as an evolving site of inquiry. Through movement, personal narratives, collaborative devising, sound, and visual experimentation, participants will collectively reimagine the work through contemporary queer perspectives.
The residency unfolds through a process of embodied exploration, collaborative creation, and performance-making, resulting in a multilingual and largely non-verbal presentation where gesture, presence, sound, and image become central modes of expression.
The final presentation invites audiences into a performance that reflects on what remains, what transforms, and what new possibilities emerge when familiar ideas of identity, home, and belonging are unsettled.
About the Residency Director
Titas Dutta is an actor, theatre-maker, and community facilitator whose practice centres on collaborative performance-making and engagement with queer communities. Working across theatre, movement, and devised performance, Titas explores questions of identity, belonging, memory, and social experience through interdisciplinary artistic processes.
About the Work
Originally written by Japanese playwright Ota Shogo, Sarachi (Vacant Lot) reflects on absence, loss, and the fragile nature of home. Set against the backdrop of post-war Japan, the work continues to resonate across cultures through its exploration of displacement, memory, and human connection.
