Theatre preview: MISF!T’s Connectologues is a piece-by-piece formation of a jigsaw puzzle

A monologue begins on stage. While a conventional monologue is usually delivered by a single actor depicting a specific story, Connectologues, a sub-genre of monologues, developed by Bengaluru’s MISF!T theatre group, is a collection of non-linear monologues, edited to form a much larger story. Connectologues is a creation of MISF!T’s Ratan Thakore Grant with Venkatesan Vaidhyanathan and Vishal Nayer, the directors of Connectologues V3.0: The Phoenix, which will be staged at Alliance Française de Bangalore on September 23. “We designed Connectologues with our mentor, Ratan Thakore Grant, wherein we have applied film grammar to theatre.” While non-linear narration is possible in cinema because of the element of editing, how does one pull it off in live theatre? The mindset you need to have here is that you’re running a marathon.” Connectologues 3.0: The Phoenix will be staged on September 23 at Alliance Française de Bangalore.