Masquerade – the Performance Group

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The Wailing Maid Junction

Conceived, designed and directed by KK, our Artistic Director,

Our Founder/Artistic Director, Dr. S. Krishna Kumar

the show as given its premiere at the Chennai Art Theatre curated annual MIDNIGHT Binge

Poster courtesy : Karthik Gowrishankar

The show was hosted and premiered as the late night performance – @ 10 30 pm and as the culmination play.

A pre-event social media publicity creative by Ashvi Santhanagopalan
The creatives for The Wailing Maid Junction publicity on social media were designed by Masquerade’s in-house social media manager and Make-up/Costumier Ashvi Santhanagopalan, who also featured in a cameo part in the show premiere.
A pre-event social media publicity creative by Ashvi Santhanagopalan

The Wailing Maid plot centres around a non-descript, semi-run down siding railway station where only two trains stop a day. The incumbents of the station are the quirky-witted Station Master and Gengamma, the strange, half-crazy Janitor lady.


Shubh Mukherjee (left) as the Station Master and Dhiraj Athreya (right) as the passenger who alights to have strange experiences
Shruti Prabakaran (right) as Gengamma, the half-crazed Janitor

Passengers (characters) arrive, await, depart, each going through life-changing experiences, as the spirit of the station rumbles on.

Enjoy the play here in a gallery of pictures, exquisitely given life by the camera of Mohan Das Vadakkara…

The performing Ensemble (from L to R) Mrittika Chattopadhyay, Shruti Prabakaran, Ashvi Santhanagopalan, Kailasam A. S (Kailu), Gauri Vaishampayan, Utsav Raaj,, Abhishek Ramabhadran, Dhiraj Athreya, Shrivatz Agharam (Steve) & Dharshan RG

For details about the show, program bill, mail us HERE

09/11/2019