Avalanche by The Gathered

After a successful run at Serendipity Arts Festival 2024 and performance at the META Festival 2024, Avalanche opens in Mumbai at the G5A warehouse.

Avalanche, written by the Turkish playwright Tuncer Cücenoğlu, is a three-act play set in a mountain-village which spends nine months under the threat of an avalanche. During this period, people live in near-silence to ward off the threat that permeates every aspect of their existence. Such is their fear of the untoward that even births during this period are prohibited, and all procreation therefore is carefully regulated. Any deviation is met with severe punishment, such as the live burial of pregnant women who it is feared will go into labour during the period of danger.

Commissioned by Serendipity Arts Foundation for Serendipity Arts Festival, 2023