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Moment Just Before Death
"Moment Just Before Death" is a play written and directed by Indian playwright Liju Krishna. The play premiered at JTPac, Eranakulam in June 2018 as first production venture from Sunny Wayne Production. It is widely considered to be one of the greatest plays in Kerala. The play has non-linear narrative and has events and characters that erupt with fluidity. It presents the intertwined nature of local cultures, human beings and languages, and the trauma of alienation. The play has a duration of 75 minutes. The play has been showcased at 10 national and international theatre festivals. It was an official selection at the 8th Theatre Olympics 2018. .

Synopsis
The play “Moment Just before Death” pivots around an old man, whose body sweeps through evanescent memories, pleasant smell of tender toddy, wild flowers drenched in longing and the endless waiting for his own coffin. The coffin is the seminal image which gives life to events and characters and the old man is shaping up his coffin day by day. The old man calls himself as the son of Muthappan’s toddy tapper's son though he abruptly left tapping tender sleeves of coconut to start building his coffin. The play showcases and old man in his seventies who harts to systematize fragmented flowers of memory perceived multiple dimensions of life in a monolithic perspective throughout his life. The play attempts to represent graphically the old man's views to the spectators straight away theatrically when he attempts to reorganize his layers of reveries lauded with love, gruesome realities of life and thoughts. Most spectacular features of the play are the nonlinear narrative, eruptions of events and fluidity of situations and characters and the inter relationship between local cultures, being and languages and the trauma of alienation. The play brings home the Old man’s passage through various facets of his life by incorporating props, images and dimensions of visual plane to envisage a theatre of experience and interrogation. The girl with flowers, Old man as a florist in the cemetery and the cult of Muthappan intensifies the tragic posture of humanity in the bleak and macabre backdrop of the play. The Designer, Playwright and Director I debut in theatre attempts to experiment with theatre space and language in an unconventional and radical way.