ABSTRACT
My journey as an artist is one where I have only begun to discover in recent years, away from home. Having been trained in a different city and then a different country; exposed to other cultures and traditions of theatrical performance, schooled in various styles and forms that were alien to me in the past, has brought me to this point of questioning my identity as an artist. Coming from a Khasi matrilineal society and educated in Shillong, I was never conscious of how my journey into the theatre would begin. It was only in the later years, away from home that I began to make conscious choices and efforts that would take me closer to my art. In this chapter I attempt to look at my years of training through the lens of displacement. After having felt displaced in all these years of my training, I bring this pertinent question back home, as a contemporary storyteller.
