The Actor’s Resource: How to Choose a Drama School
Are you looking for a place that can train you in acting and help you acquire essential skills for moving ahead in the theatre and film industry? Looking for a drama school that provides such opportunities is a good place to start. There are some prominent drama schools in India—in both rural and urban spaces. […]
Unrehearsed Futures (S3) #6 Ukraine: The Show Must Not Go On
For all her life, Ukrainian theatre-maker Maria Koreneva was a pacifist and against war. As a Gestalt psychotherapist herself, she knew what collective trauma meant and hence she always argued against the need for aggression. She was the person who said “the war should end, and then we’ll decide what to do”. It was not […]
Tick, Tick, Boom: Theatre as an Antidote and Solution to the Climate Change Crisis
I started my research for this article already in a deep state of overwhelm. Truthfully, I sometimes avoid climate data and information because it leaves me with an intense despair followed by romanticising and imagining a past I could’ve shared with nature had I not been born so late in the anthropocene. I am an […]
Curated Conversations: Dhwani Vij on her hybrid production ‘Rat’, pedagogy in digital space
This edition of Curated Conversations with actor, director and theatre educator, Dhwani Vij, was a deep dive into her one-of-a-kind digital hybrid production Rat. Dhwani says, Rat defines her process of theatre-making. Her process is influenced by what is happening at that moment in the life of the people who are making that performance. How […]
Unrehearsed Futures (S3) #5 Corporeal Vocabularies of Resistance and Potentiality
As people in the performing and creative arts, how do we deal with the idea of an unrehearsed ability of the future (as the pandemic revealed) and the rigours and strictures of absolutely essential regimentation, in order to ensure health? Exploring this and more, in our fifth conversation at Unrehearsed Futures (Season 3), we dove […]
Drama School Mumbai is Now Receiving Applications for the New Batch of its One-Year Post Graduate Course
Mumbai, March 31, 2022 Drama School Mumbai is now receiving applications for the new batch of its flagship postgraduate program in Acting and Theatre-Making that will commence in August 2022. Applications have been open since the 31st of March, 2022. Interested candidates can send in their written applications, CVs, and letters of reference. Unlike the […]
Unrehearsed Futures (S3) #4 Storming the Commons
For our fourth conversation of Unrehearsed Futures (Season 3), we had a pair of exciting activist-practitioners – Kat Purcell and Qondiswa James – who shared about their work, which focuses primarily in intervening in public spaces as a way of engaging with the politics of belonging among various other things. James described herself as a […]
Unrehearsed Futures (S3) #3 Pedagogy Under Fire: Transmitting & Recreating Theatre Making In The Context of War
Picking up on the thread on war and theatre-making from our last conversation, this time we had Nilüfer Gros, a doctorate researcher at the Conservatory of Dramatic Arts and Sabine Choucair, the founder of Clown Me In at our fourth conversation of Unrehearsed Futures (Season 3). Exploring the idea of creating in the chaosmos, Gros […]
Take A Child To The Theatre Day: Can Theatre Rebuild a Generation of Lost Childhood?
All around the world, we are now collectively stumbling to figure out what life means after two years of being in a pandemic. While everyone has suffered loss and been hurt by COVID-19, young people, in particular, have been robbed of the childhood they were supposed to have. With World Day of Theatre for Children […]
Curated Conversations: Jyoti Dogra on her digital performance ‘Nihayati Neeji Baatein’
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.― Pablo Picasso The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. – Aristotle These two quotes perfectly defined the third edition of Curated Conversations with the eminent theatre-maker and actor Jyoti Dogra. She believes that non-narrative and non-textual […]
Careers@Drama School Mumbai
Building the New Generation of Theatre-makers… Requires a Sales & Marketing Manager, Course Advisor and Development Officer unlike any other. The past year has given us a chance to renew our commitment to the acting and theatre-making community by finding new, more resilient ways to train using digital mediums. The range and reach of […]
Unrehearsed Futures (Season 3) #2 From Our Correspondents: A Conversation Between Ukrainian and Russian Theatre Artists
We had a very unique session at our second Unrehearsed Futures conversation of Season 3, where we invited Ukrainian and Russian theatre artists to share their thoughts about the ongoing war in Ukraine, which Russia invaded on 24 February, 2022. A gut wrenching conversation, several artists from both countries shared their lived experiences, their fears, […]
International Women’s Day 2022: Inside My Dream Rehearsal Room
I have always been curious about the ways in which rehearsal rooms are created – by the individuals who make up the room, and the dynamics and interactions that exist in every group that we, in the theatre community, have learnt to negotiate. Ahead of International Women’s Day on 8 March, I had the privilege […]
Being a Feminist Theatre-Maker: A Conversation with Sharanya Ramprakash
How does someone become a feminist theatre-maker? For Sharanya Ramprakash, simply being a woman who makes theatre is enough to make the work feminist. When I told her that this article would be to spotlight her work on International Women’s Day, she was overjoyed. She believes that women need to wholly claim March 8th each […]
WATCH: In Conversation with the Women of Aagaaz Theatre Trust
The Aagaaz Theatre Trust are a truly unique bunch of theatre practitioners who have redefined community engagement in recent years. This month, we interviewed the women at Aagaaz – co-founder Sanyukta, actor/core team member Nagina and facilitator/core team member Subhadra about the various programs they run with members of the Hazrat Nizamuddin Basti (in […]
Unrehearsed Futures (Season 3) #1 Creating in the Chaosmos: Indeterminacy and Generative Incapacitation
For our first conversation for Season 3, we invited Dr. Báyò Akómoláfé, a Nigerian poet, writer and public intellectual to share his thoughts on our theme for this year – Off-Axis: Creating In The Chaosmos. Akómoláfé shared that when he received the invitation to talk about the chaosmos, it reminded him of something he has […]