HAMLETS Live | Episode 1
HAMLETS LIVE is a series of six short online performances spread over six days, where different actors interpret Hamlet’s soliloquies. Each soliloquy responds to the times we live in, revealing a new side of the human psyche.
In Episode 1, an eccentric and lonely middle-aged man decides to start live streaming by performing Hamlet’s first soliloquy in the form of a song. Will he end up with too many firsts?
Devised and Performed by Preetam Koilpillai
Language: English
About the Actor
Actor, director, and pianist Preetam Koilpillai is an alumnus of the prestigious Purcell School of Music. Having also donned the roles of writer, cinematographer, producer, composer, and editor, Preetam has to his credit works such as documentary short ‘Passport Photos’ and video shorts ‘A Death In Four Movements’, ‘Guilt’, and ‘A Little Prayer’.
He is currently the co-founder and a partner at Copac Media, a Bangalore-based creative consultancy that specializes in the conception and production of editorial content - film, blogs, podcast and books.
About the Director-Playwright
Chanakya Vyas is a playwright, director and teacher. His play Algorithms was selected as one of the plays to be translated in Czech, as part of the NAYA/NOVÉ festival. He has studied Devised Theatre and Performance from LISPA, UK on a Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship (2014). He is also a recipient of the Project 560 grant by India Foundation for the Arts (2020), Ratan Tata Trust Scholarship (2018) and was recently commissioned to direct a play for the Ranga Shankara Theatre Festival (2021). He currently teaches at Head Start Educational Academy and is also a visiting faculty at the Drama School, Mumbai.
About the Production Manager
A graduate from the Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts, Samyuktha Manogaran also holds an MBA in Financial Management from Christ University. More enamoured with backstage work than being on stage, Manogaran worked as a programme associate for Ranga Shankara, as a production manager for Sandbox Collective's Smarter Digital Realities, and Gender Bender 2021. She is currently freelancing as a content creator for the Bhoomija Trust.
Her brief accidental stint as a teacher led to her pursuing and completing her B.Ed degree, specialising in English and Business/Management Studies.
