Love and Reparation

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Thursday 17 OCTOBER, 7PM

Southbank Theatre, The Lawler

A rehearsed reading that transcends time and theatrical form.

Approximately 90 minutes, with no interval

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The architecture of the law often has little patience for lived experience...

In 2018, after a decades-long battle, the Supreme Court of India finally overturned Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code - a law that effectively criminalised the intimate lives of LGBTIQ+ people.

Love and Reparation is a two-part epic that transcends time and theatrical form to pitch the legal against the poetic. Interweaving court transcripts with imagined affidavits and personal memoir, it examines the scars Section 377 left on LGBTIQ+ people in India – as well as the love that was born in its shadow.

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Danish Sheikh

Danish Sheikh is an Indian activist-lawyer, lecturer, and playwright based in Naarm (Melbourne). He uses theatre as a medium to explore questions of law, justice and queer resistance, inviting audiences to rethink the boundaries of legal engagement and collectively imagine more just futures. In 2015, he founded the Bardolators, a collective which reimagines Shakespeare for Indian audiences. His debut play Contempt was nominated for the Hindu Playwright Award and opened the Festival of Global Queer Plays at London’s Arcola Theatre. In 2023, Danish premiered the lecture-performance Much to do with law/ But more to do with love at the Institute of Postcolonial Studies, which explored how queer dissent can unlock the law’s imaginative possibilities. His research was cited by the Supreme Court of India in its decision to decriminalise homosexuality and has most recently won the 2023 Early Career Researcher Article Prize from the Law, Literature, and Humanities Association of Australasia.

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