Term 3: Day 4, 14th September

Overview: The objective of today’s session was to understand where the students are with respect to their final drafts and also how do we bring that forth during the final presentation. The presentation should be created keeping in mind that it is all within the framework of the text that they have developed during the … Continue reading Term 3: Day 4, 14th September →

Term 3- Day 2 and Day 3, 10th and 11th September

Day 2 and Day 3: 10th and 11th September For these two days, QTP’s producer Vivek Rao joined us to share his insights and experiences on producing plays. What follows are some of the key takeaways from his session: The role of a producer is, in a nutshell- Enabling, Facilitating, Hiring, making sure the creation … Continue reading Term 3- Day 2 and Day 3, 10th and 11th September →

Term 3- Day 1- September 9th

After a month-long break to work on their scripts, the members return for the third and the final term of the lab which focuses on different aspects of creative production. Activities: For today, we were joined by Vivek Madan, the executive producer of Indian Ensemble, in an interactive, informal class that included an introduction … Continue reading Term 3- Day 1- September 9th →

Term 2 Brief

The Idea Lab’s second term resumes after a month long break during which participants conducted research for their projects and began drafting their scripts. Over our first term, the lab focused on the interconnected processes of research and ideation, and pushed participants to think deeply about their plays. In our second term, we will shift … Continue reading Term 2 Brief →

Day 1

2nd July, 2019 Activities: We began the second term with reflections on how each of our projects have progressed; we took turns to talk about the last month, what worked for us and what didn’t, and what had changed with each of our plays. Then, we began discussing the composition of plays, which is the larger … Continue reading Day 1 →

Day 2

3rd July 2019 Activities: Yesterday, we’d been told to each prepare a presentation on three sources (audio, visual, text-based, etc.) in which we would share what our sources made us feel, and a short analysis of the sources. We began the day by sharing our presentations; the group presented a wide variety of source material, … Continue reading Day 2 →

Day 3

4th July 2019 Activities: Today, we began by exploring the trajectory of writing a scene. This involves four parts, namely exposition, plot points, characters, and dialogue. Exposition leads to the development of plot points, after which we can insert characters who make up the scene, and finally, to bring them to life, we write their … Continue reading Day 3 →

Day 4

5th July 2019 Activities: We began the day with a conversation on exposition. We discussed how time and space can be understood in the context of exposition, with time being understood as when information is released in the course of a play, and space being understood as the different physical dislocations in the course of … Continue reading Day 4 →

Day 5

6th July 2019 Activities: We were joined by Iswar Lalitha, a theatre-maker, from Perch, a performance collective based in Chennai. Iswar spent the day with us and spoke extensively about his experiences in creating collaboratively, and pushed us to try our hand at collaborating with one another too. We took turns to introduce ourselves and tell … Continue reading Day 5 →

Day 6

8th July 2019 Activities: We began the day by reading a draft of Abhimanyu's play. After the reading, we took turns to offer criticism on what was working and what was not, what could be fleshed out further in the coming scenes and what might benefit from revision. Chanakya noted the importance of setting down … Continue reading Day 6 →