Event Info
- Language: Gibberish
- City / State: Kollam (Kerala)
- Directed By: Remith Ramesh
- Produced By: The Interlink Theatre
Y - What Refuses to Fade
Y
Y unfolds as a series of potent, visceral images, moments where memory becomes movement, where relationships become tension, and where home becomes a breath too tight to hold. Through different materials as props and the raw physicality of the performers, it reveals a world where nothing fully leaves us, and everything we have lived continues to live inside us.
Y is not a narrative play and does not follow a single path or character. It unfolds as a series of potent, visceral images, moments where memory becomes movement, where relationships become tension, and where home becomes a breath too tight to hold. Through different materials as props and the raw physicality of the performers, Y reveals a world where nothing fully leaves us, and everything we have lived continues to live inside us. Y is built from the personal stories of the ensemble - stories that are not unique to them, but shared by many. Pain, struggle, inheritance, and resilience echo across bodies. These memories emerge through a language that is owned by no one but shared by many - Gibberish. Gibberish allows emotion to transcend words, while the body becomes the common language we all understand.
Cast and Crew-
Remith Ramesh (Director)
Sooraj Santhosh (Music)
Garggi Ananthan (Performer)
Jijivisha Akshay (Performer)
Mallika M (Performer)
Alaka P.S (Performer)
Kewal Kartik (Performer)
Sandeep Yadav (Light)
Amjat Ali (string and light operator)
Sudheesh Kotekkad (Production Manager)
Sahil (Stagehand for prop setup and execution)
Sarath SVS (Stagehand for prop setup and string operation)
Y is a devised physical theatre piece that traces the cycle of life through the memories our bodies refuse to let go. We grow, break, begin again, and carry forward fragments of what has shaped us in ways that heal, harm, or quietly haunt. The performance asks what “home” truly is: a place of safety, a site of belonging, or sometimes the very source of suffocation and trauma.
The work explores the invisible strings that bind us to people, to histories, to languages, to places we left or were forced to leave. These threads pull, resist, comfort, and choke. Even when we step away, something always follows. Something always remains.
Life is a constant folding and unfolding: meeting new ones, leaving old ones, slipping between identities and geographies. Some separations happen gently; others break us. Sometimes the distance begins with language itself: what we speak, what we’re denied, and what cannot be said.