Hamlet - Here and Now

This two hour workshop saw participants explore one of the soliloquies from Hamlet. They were led through exercises and games to find their own meaning and interpretation of the soliloquy in our current context. At the end of the workshop, participants were divided into groups of five to six and presented their interpretations using different media such as performance, movement, writing, and sound.


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.


Ashank Chandapillai