Bandbazi, the Brighton based performing arts company presents, 'Mindwalking', a new ariel drama by acclaimed playwright, Tanika Gupta, which is a meditation on growing old in a foreign land. 'Mindwalking' has its world premiere at Watermans on 29th September and runs until October 2nd 2011, before embarking on a UK tour until 4th November 2011. Set in a nursing home, Mind Walking explores what happens to a family when an old Indian man Bobbie slips into the first stages of Alzheimer's. Bobbie has spent all his adult life in Britain, but in a care home he reverts back to his first language which he spoke as a boy in Bombay in the 1940's. His family are devastated and how do they manage to communicate with Bobbie? How do they understand Bobbie's life, as he enters a territory that they cannot comprehend? Has Bobbie's whole life been a lie?

The show mixes traditional performance with an aerial component, where the actors hang or move through a single cerceau that creates a poetic visual dimension to the play as well as serving as a metaphor for the gradual decline of Bobbie’s mind. As secrets and hidden stories tumble out, this family drama explores notions of home, cultural identity and family bonds. Bandbazi (Love Indeed, Breakfast at Audrey's, The Persian Cinderella) combine aerial trapeze with this emotionally charged, character driven play performed by an international cast.

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