![]() ![]() The PIFA Colaba team (in red) defend their goal We adapt and expand it, because it’s not just about my stories. I tweak it depending on who my audience is. As a young boy, surrounded by students from different communities, food was the lens through which I observed our similarities and differences.” The show arrives in Mumbai after travelling through Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Delhi. “The reason I chose this format is because of my interest in food, and how it interacts and engages with caste. The idea for the concept, Matta shared, began from his observations in childhood. ![]() “This is the first performance in Mumbai,” he told this diarist. ![]() The show combines Matta’s recounting of oral histories, documentation of subaltern stories with a sampling of food that allows the audience an insight into the experience. The Bengaluru-based theatre artiste will bring his interactive performance, Come Eat With Me, to the city in June. Can food show us the unconscious or subconscious bias and differences that plague our society? But the country’s complex religious and caste divide can be healed through food, believes theatremaker Sri Vamsi Matta. ![]()
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