Here's why you should go watch Conversations 2016: A love letter to Karachi
“You do realize there was a story in there, right?”
“Was there?”
“Yes. It’s about a girl first alienated by Karachi...who then slowly falls in love with the city.”
“Was it?”
“What the hell is wrong with you?!”
I wasn’t sure what was wrong with me as I walked out of the FTC auditorium at the end of Sunil Shankar and Joshinder Chaggar’s contemporary dance drama, ‘Conversations 2016 – A love letter to Karachi’.
It was the wrong you feel exiting an acid trip that featured both fairies and the occasional slip into a two-dimensional reality; it was a wrong that felt so right I wanted to do it all over again.
There were characters in there for sure. I think it started with a crab on the beach.
“He represents Karachi, idiot.”
Did he? All I saw was this immense, controlled force. Too controlled for my liking. I felt uncomfortable.
Move faster crab – I can see the madness in you.
I was entranced.