HAMLETS Live | Episode 3
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.
A young and ambitious actor who plays a small character in a Yakshagana production of Hamlet decides to do a live stream from the green room before the show. He runs a youtube channel and wants to impress his small number of online followers. Will he get more likes or dislikes?
Devised and Performed by Prasad Cherkady
Kannada Translation: K S Bhagavan
Language: Kannada and English
About the Actor
Actor, filmmaker, and Yakshagana practitioner par excellence, Prasad Cherkady is the Founder and Creative Executive of ‘Kathegaararu’ (The Storytellers) – a Yakshagana, Theatre and Film Production company. The recipient of several awards for his work, such as the Mahindra Excellence in Theatre (META) Best Actor 2016, Prasad is also a Yakshagana and acting coach at Nagathihalli Cine Creation’s Tent Cinema, Yakshagana choreographer for Alva’s Education Foundation, and Yakshagana teacher at Theatre Mitu – South Indian intensive for International Students. He is also a Grantee of the Young Artist Scholarship for Yakshagana awarded by the Ministry of Culture, India.
Currently, Prasad dons the roles of script writer and actor for a multilingual feature film helmed by actor-director-screenwriter Adarsh H Eshwarappa and for a Kannada feature film with actor-director Rishab Shetty, in addition to performing, teaching, and conducting Yakshagana workshops across the country.
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.
