HAMLETS Live | Episode 2
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.
What is the connection between decluttering and the soliloquy in which Hamlet compares his head to a distracted globe? Find out in this live video with the charming and famous host of Klearing with Kay, who has some hacks and tips to declutter your mind. Unfortunately, it’s not as easy as it seems…
Devised and Performed by Kavya Srinivasan
Language: English
About the Actor
Kavya Srinivasan is a storyteller, theatre actor and playwright. She has been on stage for the last ten years, and most recently was made Artist in Residence for Theatre at the Intercut Labs, a British Council project for Indo-Welsh creative exploration. In her free time, she can be found reading, singing and daydreaming.
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.
