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The painfully amplified sound mix includes great rolls of thunder, clanging bells and an intermittent voiceover stressing the feminine world view: “In another time, I was a daughter and then a wife and then a mother.” In a sublime early sequence, Kapila Venu summons up a memory, her fingers seeming to pull a love letter from the air while bharatanatyam specialists Vijna Vasudevan and Renjith Babu flit flirtatiously around her, the embodiment of her long-ago courtship. During the final power-grab, Khan crushes his peaceable brother Khoo, but as his crowning fingers hover above his head, the right hand refuses to cooperate, repeatedly pulling away and triggering a sustained solo that shows us a body at war with itself.

THEATRE November 20-24, PN November 20 Running time: 1hr Creator/director/ choreographer Akram Khan Composers Rabindranath Tagore, Jyotsna Nityanandan, Padmashree Pankaj Charan Das, Nina Harries, Hariraam Tingyuan Lam, Muthuswami Dikshitar,Aditya Prakash, Sohail Rana,Kalmandalam Rajeev Orchestrator Jyotsna Prakash Costume designer Peggy Housset Lighting designer Zeynep Kepekli Sound designer Dave Price Cast Akram Khan, BC Manjunath,Mavin Khoo, Sohini Alam,Nina Harries, Sirikalyani Adkoli, Renjith Babu, Mythili Prakash, Vijna Vasudevan,Kapila Venu, Kalamandalam Rajeev, Hariraam Lam,Chitra Poornima Sathish,Rohith Jayaraman Stage manager Marek Pomocki Producer Productions Sarfati SADLER'S WELLS, LONDON Akram Khan's return to performing, four years after deciding to retire, was always going to be an event. In her older iteration, this woman is played by Kapila Venu - not a dancer, but a practitioner of the ancient Indian theatre tradition of Kutiyattam - who infuses her character with a fierce warrior-like energy and a bone-deep despair at her sons' battle. The volume level is insane; the crashing thunder of a storm at one point is so loud that it drowns out one of the few snatches of narrative voiceover.