Performance: Karuppi (The Dark Woman)

Performance: Karuppi (The Dark Woman)
Sponsored by the Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program; the Indo-Pacific Council (INPAC); and the Department of Theatre Arts

Karuppi (The Dark Woman) is a one-woman performance in English/Tamil/Creole performed by Ponni Arasu.

The play, originally created in Tamil, is a collection of writing by and about Tamil speaking women who traveled across oceans from Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka for work or were displaced by war. The script consists of poetry, traditional folk songs, excerpts from short stories and government documents. The stories date back to the early 19th Century to the present day. While translating the play in English, the Marapachchi team found that the play works on many registers. While the play is about Tamil-speaking women, the incidents and stories may resonate with other contexts and histories.

For detailed information visit the GSWS event site.