Dramaturgy : Questions and Clarifications with Sophia Stepf
The term dramaturgy first appears in the work Hamburg Dramaturgy (1767–69) by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, who is also credited with first creating and practicing this discipline. Although every production inherently has its own dramaturgy by virtue of the artists working on the context of the play, a dramaturg is a dedicated person on the creative […]
Theatre Stalwart Chandra Dasan’s Approach to Dramaturgy
Chandradasan (born December 1958) is a theatre director, actor and writer from Kerala, India. He has directed 35 plays in Malayalam, English, Sanskrit, Kannada, Lithuanian, Finnish and Tamil. Chandradasan won the National award for the best play at Mahindra Theatre Festival for his play Karnabharam, New Delhi in 2008. He has achieved many awards for […]
My Home at the Intersection – a successful Experiment in Dramaturgy
Abhishek Thapar (1985, Moga) is a theatre maker, performer, puppeteer and artist based in Amsterdam. He holds a post-graduate diploma in Physical Theatre from LISPA, London and a Master in Theatre degree from DAS Theatre, Amsterdam. Currently, he is building an artistic research and practice in post-colonial epistemologies, historiographic metafiction and storytelling. DSM writer Pranita […]
Dramaturgy: A German Approach by Gotz Leineweber
Götz Leineweber holds an MA in cultural anthropology, theatre studies and philosophy from University of Cologne. He worked as an editor and journalist and got his postgraduate degree in cultural journalism from the University of Arts, Berlin in 2004. From 2004 he has been working as a dramaturg, first at Volksbühne (2004-07, Artistic Director: Frank […]
In conversation with Yuki Ellias
Yuki Ellias is an actor, theatre- director and corporate coach. She trained at the Jacques Lecoq School of Theatre in Paris and is a trained pedagogue from the London International School of Performing Arts. As an actress, she has performed in the UK, US, Canada, Australia, Italy and India. Her theatre company Dur Se […]
Pranita Pandurangi in Conversation with Bruce Guthrie
After directing critically acclaimed plays and musicals all over the world, Bruce Guthrie was recently appointed Head of Theatre and Films at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai. Bruce has directed Constellations, a play by Nick Payne. It opened for its second run at NCPA on the 21st of November […]
Aadyant: From the beginning to the end
On the 13th and 14th of June, DSM Batch 2018-19 performed in their school for the very last time as students. This is a short review of the event and their year-long learning. Aadyant. Aadyant and the preparation leading up to it. Photo Credit: Poulomi Dey Each year, the PG Course in Acting & Theatre-making […]
That Theatre Life: Conversations with Theatre-makers who switched careers to make theatre
A couple of months ago, we decided to ask theatre-makers, what they were doing before they started doing theatre. This is a significant question in India. Here, by many standards, theatre is still a developing industry. We don’t know the stories of too many theatre-makers who planned their careers in theatre and pursued them with […]