What happens to a woman when the world calls it joy, but her body whispers something else? When the womb becomes a house - sometimes full, sometimes hollow-and the mind becomes its own battleground?
Just Enough Madness by Payal Ramchandani is a bold new dance-theatre that uses the fluidity of the Indian classical dance style of Kuchipudi to explore the silences surrounding motherhood, miscarriage, and mental health. Through poetic text, ritual, and a striking live musical score, the piece navigates the thresholds of unbecoming, and becoming an ‘almost’ mother, where joy meets rupture, and identity flickers between who she was and who she’s expected to be.
Fireflies shimmer as fragments of the self.
She is tethered, by love, memory, by burden.
What once connected now confines.
Two heartbeats become one, one becomes none.
Lullabies welcome her, yet she moves through the house of motherhood as a guest, not its inhabitant.
Shifting between presence and absence, memory and loss, the performer moves alongside live musicians in a raw and haunting confrontation between inner grief and outer judgment. At the heart of it is a quiet, urgent question: when the strings are pulled, who truly holds them?
This is a story of what we carry, what we lose, and what we dare to reclaim.
This is Just Enough Madness.
Just Enough Madness by Payal Ramchandani is a bold new dance-theatre that uses the fluidity of the Indian classical dance style of Kuchipudi to explore the silences surrounding motherhood, miscarriage, and mental health. Through poetic text, ritual, and a striking live musical score, the piece navigates the thresholds of unbecoming, and becoming an ‘almost’ mother, where joy meets rupture, and identity flickers between who she was and who she’s expected to be.
Fireflies shimmer as fragments of the self.
She is tethered, by love, memory, by burden.
What once connected now confines.
Two heartbeats become one, one becomes none.
Lullabies welcome her, yet she moves through the house of motherhood as a guest, not its inhabitant.
Shifting between presence and absence, memory and loss, the performer moves alongside live musicians in a raw and haunting confrontation between inner grief and outer judgment. At the heart of it is a quiet, urgent question: when the strings are pulled, who truly holds them?
This is a story of what we carry, what we lose, and what we dare to reclaim.
This is Just Enough Madness.
Event Dates
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22nd November 2025, 7:30pm |
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