beyond silence

Mime is a form of gesture acting where the performer enacts situations through body language and facial contortions. Unlike other forms of theater there is never a written script in mime. Being a silent art form, it attracts students who are deaf and dumb. But it’s difficult to etch out a career as a mime artist in India. Most practitioners have day jobs and see it as a labour of love. This essay follows few students of mime exponent Jogesh Dutta who struggle to nurture the dying art amidst the dilapidated theatre of Jogesh Mime Academy in Calcutta.

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