by Sbox by Sakshi
18 June, Thursday | 6:30 pm | Shreeram Lagoo Rang Avkash, Pune
The Light in my Eyes
A room.
A conversation interrupted.
Music playing somewhere in the background.
A version of yourself you can no longer avoid meeting.
The Light in My Eyes unfolds through fragments of memory, shifting relationships, silences, and moments that almost pass unnoticed until they don’t. Through live performance, movement, and intimate storytelling, the production creates a world where what remains unsaid often speaks the loudest. Moving between humour, discomfort, tenderness, and tension, the play invites audiences into an experience that feels at once familiar and quietly unpredictable. Some encounters change nothing. Some stay with you long after you leave the room.
Content Notes
References to sexual themes, References to structural violence themes (casteism/racism/transphobia/homophobia/communalism etc)
Credits
Script and Direction:
Performance:
Performance:
Light and Sound:
Show Calling:
Production:
Production:
Smita Bharti (she/her)
Aparajita Sharma (she/her)
Padma Damodaran (she/her)
Nayan Pandya (he/him)
Naomi Joy Yadav (she/them)
Patrick Fernandes (he/him)
Swargesh Sannaki (he/him)
Director’s Note
The Light in My Eyes emerges from the writer/director’s engagement with queerness beyond visibility-driven narratives. The work is rooted in the quieter, more intimate realities of queer domestic life: companionship, ageing, routine, emotional dependence, silence, care, conflict, and the ways relationships evolve across time and generations.
The play is particularly interested in how queer people from different generations learn to navigate intimacy differently depending on the social worlds they have inherited, survived, or built for themselves. Rather than focusing on revelation or identity as spectacle, the work stays with what happens after , in homes, in habits, in unresolved conversations, in the ordinary rhythms of living alongside another person.
The writer/director approaches the piece through lived observation, emotional realism, and an interest in the tensions between vulnerability, power, affection, and survival within domestic relationships. Audiences are invited to engage with the silences, negotiations, generational shifts, and emotional undercurrents that exist beneath what is spoken openly.
Director’s Bio
Smita Bharti (she/her) is the Executive Director of Sakshi, a non-profit organisation dedicated to ending gender inequality and sexual violence. Sakshi addresses gender-based violence nationwide through impactful PILs, and collaborations. Beyond her organisational leadership, Smita is a distinguished poet, playwright, and director. With an extensive body of over 30 plays and a web series, her work highlights prevailing societal disparities and oppression. She is a research fellow affiliated with WISCOMP and the K.K. Birla Foundation. Her commitment to peace and justice has led her to become a Rotary Global Peace Fellow. Smita’s life’s purpose to interrupt the cycle of gender-based violence has compelled her to break silences and face towering challenges with resilience.