When was the last time you went to the theatre? Which is the last play you loved watching? Ask this question today and chances are most of us have to rack our brains for an answer.
2020, the year of resilience in theatre: Practitioners and institutions rose to the challenges of an unprecedented crisis The pandemic presented endless opportunities for theatrewallahs to rally together as a networked community beyond the usual barriers of geography or language. Vikram Phukan December 24, 2020 09:32:34 IST Representational image via Facebook/Drama School of Mumbai
For the theatre community, the last month of the year is usually a time for winding down, taking stock, balancing the books (sparse as they might be), and carefully putting away the implements of a year-long engagement with the practice. Then again, in this uncommon year, that was perhaps all one could do over months of uncertainties and speculation, spent milling in the uncanny limbo of an entire trade brought to a grinding halt by a super-spreading virus.