“The Game - In Search of Draupadi”
A dance theatre premiere in support of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights

“Myths are universal and timeless stories that reflect and shape our lives – they mirror our desires, our fears, our longings.”

- from “The Myths” series, Knopf

This is a dance drama about myths and their making. At over 18,000 verses, longer than the Iliad and the Odyssey combined, the Sanskrit poem Mahabharata is perhaps the world’s greatest epic. The story of two noble houses and their descent into the hell of war, it is a tapestry of parables and philosophies, set within the secular world of politics and culture in an India of the early ages of civilization. The key scene that sparks the conflict revolves around a game of dice. One man loses all – wealth, kingdom, liberty. Finally he stakes his wife. He loses; the winners drag her into the room and attempt to pull off her clothes. Then suddenly the scene skips forward to bloody cries for revenge, and a war that envelops the known world. Just what could have happened to that woman in that room? What sort of a game was this?

Manohar Performing Arts has created the dance drama The Game from this crucial question, incorporating six versions of the same story from six dramatically different points of view, each retelling uncovering hidden truths and asking new questions about human nature. Inspired by Pirandello, Kurasawa and the acclaimed movie Hero, The Game fuses dance, music and drama in a powerful and stirring adaptation of an ancient story.

For further information or to purchase tickets, please contact Manohar Performing Arts at company@manohardance.com.

"The Game" is presented by ICCHA and Friends of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights will be a national and international destination -- a centre of learning and history where people can engage in dialogue and commit to taking action to combat the forces of hate and oppression. Located in Winnipeg, at the cross roads of Canada, this museum will be the largest human rights centre in the world, with a special focus on equipping and educating young people to become human rights leaders and advocates.

http://www.canadianmuseumforhumanrights.com