Joy Sengupta talks about his teleplay Womanly Voices

In its forthcoming teleplay Womanly Voices, Zee Theatre packs in three powerful feminine perspectives. The play is directed by well-known actor and theatre veteran Lilette Dubey. It dramatises three great stories that reveal the depth and scope of some of India’s finest women writers including Wajida Tabassum’s penetrative, Utran, to Mahasweta Devi’s riveting and savagely moving Shishu, and Gita Mehta’s hauntingly poignant tale, The Teacher’s story. Joy Sengupta who plays eight, pivotal characters in the teleplay shares, “I belong to a school of acting which is very flexible and not bound by any rigid conventions. So, I accessed the intuitive freedom to merge with different characters and seamlessly transitioned from one role to another. Womanly Voices is in the realm of physical, experimental, or avant-garde theatre and also draws from the traditions of folk theatre where most actors play multiple characters at the same time. I drew from all these disciplines and from my own experience with street theatre, to play these characters.”