It appears from these comments that the audience were happy with what they saw. Now the people understood how they live and what they do this they have understood by themselves.’ You are doing it to show the familial experiences. ‘… the things which we find difficult, you tried to show it in front of us, which motivated us … Everything was good’.
And this itself is an honour to us … It is our own story only so there is nothing that we are angry at or anything. So we also felt good about it and we also liked it … the play was really good … you have done it in a quite friendly manner. ‘Nothing like this has happened before … this is the first time that someone has come here, talked to us, asked us. Otherwise, we don’t pay attention to it nor realize it’. It is only from your play that we are understanding what we are actually doing. ‘I felt it was very good … I am actually feeling that how true it is! This all actually happens. I want to start by sharing some of the feedback that the researchers collected from some of the audience members who had seen ‘Suno Suno’, the final play that came out of the project: Information on the wider project can be found here.Ī 360 degree film which shows excerpts from the play (‘Suno Suno’) can be seen here. The project, which was based around investigating notions of mental health resilience in a basti (slum) community, was a partnership between health and theatre practitioners and my work was primarily focussed on trying to ensure that the project moved away from any instrumentalist agenda and allowed the community to share their own stories to themselves. It was given in response to a project I had been involved in with the university which had led to the creation of a community play in Pune. This paper was presented at the Mental Health, Migration and Resilience: innovative applied arts based methodologies for research policy and practice conference at DeMontfort University on the 19th of October, 2019.
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