An interim called slow downing
As I am embarked in theatre, I seemed to find so much joy in the lights, the sense of space of the auditorium, the high rush of euphoria listening to the claps I never...
Author: Gouri Nilakantan
Why them why me…NO, YES THEM YES ME!!!!
Its the first day of the new year, 2025, the time is almost 9 30 in the night and one can say that the day is over. The second day to the year is...
A HAMLET IN THEATRE
Prose Its only a hamlet that we all wish to create. A sense of familiarity. a sense of being totally one and open with all, a place where no judgements will be announced and...
Theatre as an Academic Discipline
I have heard many times why should a theatre person continue in his academic life when he already has a degree in performance and why should we even read a book, is not acting...
The conventional shows the way to the magnified
Why does the mind capture us into escaping into augmented states, happy at first, but also that state becomes a dizzy haze. It seems like a hazy television screen. The mind is a total...
The Pearly Dew Drop Speaks
A few dew drops rests on the primroses with garden greens It seems like glistening pearls to a few But the drying drops knows for sure That they are indeed not the pearly wealthy...
We are forever anew
When its time to be heard, prepared to be silentWhen its time to be considered, prepared to be hurtWhen its time to say how many times moreBe prepared to be reminded your time might...
Quit Being the Same, Think Out of the Box: Creating New Opportunities in Theatre
I have heard enough, same lines over and over again, there is no money in theatre, so I am doing films; I have kept enough savings and now I have retired peacefully into theatre;...
The Hearing of a Home
A Small Cottage near the GreensWith Neighbourly kind voices that were once Seen Oh has Life Ever Been?That Standing Stillness of Home?Not to Move out, Not to Move OnThe Standing Sense of HomeIt’s the...
Why this Kolaveri D, its Gen Zee!
Constantly on the net, extreme social isolation due to covid, higher rising expectations on education and fearful of financial losses, these are the underplaying context of the present Genz. Much like the song Kolaveri...
