Wed January 31, 2024
FONTWALA, a solo play about language, technology and South Asian identity
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Written & Performed by Shubhra Prakash
Directed by Ekene Okobi
About the Show
In 1990s India, Fontwala is an aspiring typographer and font designer of Indian languages who designs the Anglo Nagari Keyboard, one of the first software that allows typing of Indian scripts on the Latin-based keyboard. In the present time, Shilpi, Fontwala's niece, has returned to India after spending two decades as an immigrant in the US to write the story of her uncle, Fontwala. Shilpi discovers what it means for a "complex" script to survive in a digital world and for a person with complex history to try and tell one story. Inspired by the story of typographer and font designer of Indian scripts, Rajeev Prakash.
What remains of an artist who turns entrepreneur?
What remains of the aesthetics of a language once digitized?
What remains of a dream of returning to one's homeland to live in after 20 years in the west?
FONTWALA has been awarded the Reflection Achievement by Theatre Bay Area, an accolade that honors productions that represent Bay Area's diversity onstage, offstage in leadership and in the house.
$15.
Presented by TheMarsh
show less
Directed by Ekene Okobi
About the Show
In 1990s India, Fontwala is an aspiring typographer and font designer of Indian languages who designs the Anglo Nagari Keyboard, one of the first software that allows typing of Indian scripts on the Latin-based keyboard. In the present time, Shilpi, Fontwala's niece, has returned to India after spending two decades as an immigrant in the US to write the story of her uncle, Fontwala. Shilpi discovers what it means for a "complex" script to survive in a digital world and for a person with complex history to try and tell one story. Inspired by the story of typographer and font designer of Indian scripts, Rajeev Prakash.
What remains of an artist who turns entrepreneur?
What remains of the aesthetics of a language once digitized?
What remains of a dream of returning to one's homeland to live in after 20 years in the west?
FONTWALA has been awarded the Reflection Achievement by Theatre Bay Area, an accolade that honors productions that represent Bay Area's diversity onstage, offstage in leadership and in the house.
$15.
Presented by TheMarsh
Written & Performed by Shubhra Prakash
Directed by Ekene Okobi
About the Show
In 1990s India, Fontwala is an aspiring typographer and font designer of Indian languages who designs the Anglo Nagari Keyboard, one of the first software that allows typing of Indian scripts on the Latin-based keyboard. In the present time, Shilpi, Fontwala's niece, has returned to India after spending two decades as an immigrant in the US to write the story of her uncle, Fontwala. Shilpi discovers what it means for a "complex" script to survive in a digital world and for a person with complex history to try and tell one story. Inspired by the story of typographer and font designer of Indian scripts, Rajeev Prakash.
What remains of an artist who turns entrepreneur?
What remains of the aesthetics of a language once digitized?
What remains of a dream of returning to one's homeland to live in after 20 years in the west?
FONTWALA has been awarded the Reflection Achievement by Theatre Bay Area, an accolade that honors productions that represent Bay Area's diversity onstage, offstage in leadership and in the house.
$15.
Presented by TheMarsh
read more
Directed by Ekene Okobi
About the Show
In 1990s India, Fontwala is an aspiring typographer and font designer of Indian languages who designs the Anglo Nagari Keyboard, one of the first software that allows typing of Indian scripts on the Latin-based keyboard. In the present time, Shilpi, Fontwala's niece, has returned to India after spending two decades as an immigrant in the US to write the story of her uncle, Fontwala. Shilpi discovers what it means for a "complex" script to survive in a digital world and for a person with complex history to try and tell one story. Inspired by the story of typographer and font designer of Indian scripts, Rajeev Prakash.
What remains of an artist who turns entrepreneur?
What remains of the aesthetics of a language once digitized?
What remains of a dream of returning to one's homeland to live in after 20 years in the west?
FONTWALA has been awarded the Reflection Achievement by Theatre Bay Area, an accolade that honors productions that represent Bay Area's diversity onstage, offstage in leadership and in the house.
$15.
Presented by TheMarsh
show less
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