Theatre artists often tend to work with communities of different kinds. While there is a lot of integrity in the experience, theatre practitioners often begin their work already separated from the communities they intend to serve. It could be due to funding processes, the paradigms of applied theatre, or the continuing legacy of the romantic…
Theatre artists often tend to work with communities of different kinds. While there is a lot of integrity in the experience, theatre practitioners often begin their work already separated from the communities they intend to serve. It could be due to funding processes, the paradigms of applied theatre, or the continuing legacy of the romantic…
Do you believe Creation desires your devotion Through murder and death We squabble over The pieces of the earth The true beasts are Those who believe in creation Without mother, womb or birth Be simple like the flowers – Lyrics from Me’shell Ndegeocello’s album Comfort Woman Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist Kate Quarfordt’s wish is to…
For young theatre-makers who are starting out in the field wanting to create their own work and theatre companies, a question that stumps them is: How does one start a theatre company with no money? In an ecosystem that is starving for financial injections, it becomes a task for young theatre-makers to find their way…
As we encounter a world that is perpetually in a state of constant disruption, the question arises that if we were to embrace this feeling of being in a constant flux, where is the moment of creativity, where is the generative capacity. At a recent Unrehearsed Futures (Season 3) conversation, Delhi-based playwright and director, Neel…
In the swirling vortex that is our chaosmos, what does it mean ‘to woman’? Whether negotiating intimate family dramas or the grand scale of a global apocalypse, female protagonists are usually figured as witnesses to (though rarely agents in) the making of society. At a recent Unrehearsed Futures (Season 3) conversation, we dove into the chaosmos…
India will complete 75 years of Independence this month. Freedom (or Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, as the Government of India calls it) is the word on the street everywhere you go. We wondered, Iin these times, what does the concept of freedom mean to artists and theatre practitioners. To find out, we interviewed some practitioners to…
Standing in solidarity with Ukrainian artists who have been affected by the ongoing war, we decided to dedicate the tenth session of Unrehearsed Futures (Season 3) to engage with them and understand how they are expressing their national and personal struggle through their art. While the news cycle is tiring of Ukraine, we are convinced…
In a special sitting of Unrehearsed Futures, we celebrated the book launch of ‘This Place / That Place’, written by Nandita Dinesh, a writer and researcher who has traversed through the cosmos of performing, theatre-making, activism and more. It also happens to be her first novel. At first glance, This Place / That Place feels not like…
We live in a world where we are conditioned to look for stability and balance. But if the events of the past two years have taught us anything, it is that we live in a perpetually chaotic world where we try to find and establish order. If we are to accept that we live in…