HAMLETS Live | Episode 6
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 the final episode, Hamlet ponders over the doubt and uncertainty plaguing him, which prevent him from avenging his father’s death. Is it forgetfulness or his constant introspection which stops him?
Devised and Performed by Anuja Ghosalkar
Language: English
About the Actor
Anuja Ghosalkar is the founder of Drama Queen—a Documentary theatre company, evolving a unique form of theatre in India since 2015. Her practice focuses on personal histories, archival absences and blurring the hierarchies between audience and performer—to extend the idea of theatre to create audacious work. Iterations around form and process, modes of (social) media, sites, technologies, reclaiming narratives on gender and intimacy are critical to her performance making and pedagogy.
Her performances and workshops have been programmed by University of Oxford, Hong Kong University, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Sophiensale, Serendipity Arts Festival, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Forum Transregionale –ZMO, among others.
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.
