Praneet Akilla & Angel Glady in Kainchee Lagaa | Photos by Jeremy Mimnagh
Disclosure time: I’m drawn to stories that feature incest. Oh boy, that looks super weird in cold, plain text. I should clarify some specifics. I’m deeply fascinated when it’s between consenting individuals (even if the impulse is naive, fraught or delusional), stories which are neither moralistic nor teeming with sensationalistic rhetoric. I appreciate unguarded acknowledgement of sexuality, without overt or subtextual kink-shaming. Oh! And I really love slow-burn narratives that defy anticipation, that drag me along a murky path that doesn’t allow me the comfort of being, hmmm… ahead of the storyteller, if y’know what I mean.
Zaiba Baig’s Begging Brown Bitch Plays satisfy all of these narrative fetishes. Presented by House of Beida and Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Kainchee Lagaa & Jhooti, are a provocative double bill—playful, ominous and raw. Continue Reading