CAST AND CREW
SNUFF PUPPETS AUSTRALIA
Male Narrator/ Kattiyakaran- Dharani Dharan
Workshop Director- Rebecca Rutter
Female Narrator / Bomakka, Dhanam- Mme. Gandhimary
Head Builder- Nick Wilson
Bomakka- Dinesh Mani Kattiyakaran- P. Murugan Dhanam- K. Sathish Drishtipusani- Vijay Kumar Ravanan- Manuel Theremand Traditional Tamil House- Anand, Karthikeyan, Navomie, Athmayazhini Shadow Puppets- Ruthra, Gati Narvekar, Baptiste Vargas, Jade Cornellot, Yuvaas Guiry, Emma TV Sets (autorickshaws)- Bhaskaran, Sivakumar, Venkatesan Puppet Movement Support- Kumar, Sakthivel, Silambasvaran, Vasudevan, Suman, Sathish Kumar, Snuff Puppets team Live Music- R. Rengarajan, S. Marimuthu, T. Krishnavel Appaswamy, K. Panneerselvam, M. Murugan, T. Senthil, A. Poovarasan, V. Mookkaiyan, R. Muruganantham
Assistant Builders- Erin Hall, Stephane Hisler
LOCAL WORKSHOP SUPPORT INTACH Pondicherry- Ashok Panda, Arul, Pratibha Indianostrum Theatre- Koumarane Valavane Urban Design Collective- Vidhya Mohankumar, Sarat Chandran, Dean Anthony Additional Puppet Building Crew- B. Yogalakshmi, Anitha, Jayanthi, Suguna, Alex, Sumathi Tools & Materials Procurement- Sathish Kumar Light & Sound Production- M/S Soundgarden, M/S Dhandapani Still photography- Sridhar Balasubramaniam, Sarat Chandran Videography- Rathinam Stills, Pondicherry Workshop Production Manager- Devangi Ramakrishnan
All photos in this article by Sridhar Balasubramaniam and Sarat Chandran
About the Author Devangi Ramakrishnan, is an independent architecture and urban design consultant, and is based in Pondicherry, India since October 2012. Between 2008 and 2011, she worked at HCP Design & Project Management Pvt. Ltd., Ahmedabad, where she was part of the urban design team, involved in the Sabarmati Riverfront Development Project, and led and managed the Swarnim Park Development, and Sachivalaya Campus Revitalisation projects for the Government of Gujarat. Between 2012 and 2014, she was India project co-ordinator for Global Studio, an international action-research based education program of Centre of Sustainable Urban Development (CSUD), Columbia University. In this capacity, she assisted in the Global Studio International Workshop, Bhopal in January 2012, and conceptualised and exhibited the 12-country International Traveling Exhibition ‘People Building Better Cities’ in Mumbai, Delhi and Chennai through 2013. In her role as trustee at Urban Design Collective, she has led several collaborative community-based initiatives in Chennai and Pondicherry. She has consulted with INTACH Pondicherry on various heritage, urban revitalisation, and cultural projects, the most recent projects being, the ‘Development of Heritage Area’ project initiated by the Department of Tourism and the ‘People’s Puppet Project Pondicherry’, completed in December 2014. In addition, she is an active member of the Rajbhavan Neighbourhood Association, Pondicherry, and contributes to its activities on a regular basis.
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