Angol
Kalarajya, a kingdom of southern India, 1907. Behind the closed doors of a sacred temple, four women dance for their god, Nataraja, and never for a human audience.
Mayuri is the finest of them. The temple is her home, her faith, and the only world she has ever known.
Then Captain Edward Harcourt crosses the forbidden threshold. Beyond the temple walls, the British Empire is closing its hand around Kalarajya; within them, the officer's fascination with Mayuri threatens to become another kind of conquest.
As the kingdom falls and the temple lamps grow dim, Mayuri must decide what devotion demands of her, and what no power on earth has the right to take.
The Temple Dancer is a stage play, a dance-drama of devotion, empire, and the terrible cost of choosing, set in an invented kingdom. Original music and per-scene digital backgrounds are available to producers as a datapack with the performance licence. Contains an attempted assault and a violent death, both stylised as dance; for older-teenage and adult audiences.
