Hyderabad-based Kriti Stories’ How Does my Garden Grow? reflects on people being judged for their choices
The HinduParenting choice and judgement are two significant words in the play How Does Your Garden Grow? To be staged by Hyderabad-based Kriti Stories on September 15 and 16, the 90-minute devised production deals with a challenge most parents face: Being judged by people all the time and also how certain choices are scrutinised. Pallavi began guiding artistes to work on archetypes, flesh out characters’ personalities and create worlds around them. “Since the story was open-ended, we also had input from the team” Nearly 12 artistes rehearsed for around two months to create imagery with abstract performances. So let me be and don’t judge.’ She tries to come out of the situation by avoiding the ‘bottle’ but news reporters try to get ‘the bottle’.” How Does Your Garden Grow?