by 8 by Deep Design
20 June, Saturday | 8:00 pm | Shreeram Lagoo Rang Avkash, Pune
8 by Deep Design
8 Stories. 8 Songs. 8 Women.
Schoolgirls and secretaries, farmers and influencers, pregnant wives and pissed-off divorcees…
Winner of the 2023 Adishakti Theatriculate Fellowship, 8 is a solo dance-theatre performance reimagining the classical Indian archetypes of the ashta nayika (eight heroines) as women of our times. Watch 8 women navigate relationships with their lovers in today’s diverse India.
An exciting smash-up of hip hop theatre and baithak abhinaya, this multilingual production features an original soundtrack by award-winning musicians that the Hindustan Times called “strikingly beautiful”.
The performance will be accessible through English surtitles for all other languages.
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Deep Design
Deepa D.
Bindhumalini, Charu Hariharan, Deepika Karthik Kumar, Gurupriya Atreya
Vinayak Netke with Charu Hariharan and Hitesh Dhutia
Niranjan Gokhale
Bilqis Zafirul Hasan, Deepika Karthik Kumar, Kamala Das, Meenal Hajratwala, Muddupalani, Panchaphula Nandurekar, Vijayaraja Mallika
Bali Gujar, Gangubai Chunchalwad, Hirabai Gynandev Chavan, Hira Sawant, Indubai Shedge, Lakshmi Bhilare, Malini Awasthi, Mukta Varat, Radha Sakpal, Saru Damle, Shahu Kamble, Sita Pimple, Sushma Pawar
Ann Grodzins Gold, Asha Ogale, Asha Singh, Balakrishnan Gayathri Raghavan, Charu Hariharan, Deeba Zafir, Deepa D., Deepika Karthik Kumar, Gautam Pemmaraju, Jitendra Maid, Maitreyee Kulkarni, Naghma Zafir, P. Vijaya Kumar, Rajani Khaladkar
Charu Hariharan, Maniratnam, Nalini Vittobane, Shriraman Chandrasekhar, Sidney Alberts, Vinayak Netke
Vinayak Netke
Percival Crasto
Adriel George
Sandhya Raman
Jin-Ming Lai
Jennie Jordan
Apoorva Saptarshi
This production was created through the 2023 Theatriculate Fellowship awarded by Adishakti Laboratory for Theatre Art Research.
Director’s Note
Director’s Bio
Deepa D. (she/her) is a multi-disciplinary performance maker. She has written for academia and performing arts, as well as published essays, fiction and poetry. She has been designing lights for dance and theatre since 2007, first in the US and then in India, with multiple national and international tours. and has taught workshops and lectured at universities. She has performed and taught with The Natya Vriksha Dance Company and the Danceworx Company, and studied lighting design at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, while pursuing a BFA in Dance. In 2023 she won the 2023 Adishakti Theatriculate Fellowship, and in 2025 her production company Deep Design completed a successful 9-city national tour with its dance-theatre solo ‘8’. She is the festival director of SatRangaM—a queer theatre festival held in June in Pune.