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Unleash: Transformation through feminist leadership

Aanchal Jain holds a Masters in Women’s Studies from TISS Mumbai, and is trained in theatre from Yale University and Trinity College London, which inform her work, feminist principles and ethics.

Join us on the 8th October, 10:30am onwards.

Registration link in bio 🔗

SUMMER AT YALE!

Our founder, spent the summer at University nuancing directorial practices with some fantastic instructors - Evan Younillis, Patrick Madden, Pat Diamond he/him/his, Jennifer Archibald, Andrew F. Griffin, James Mountcasyle, Danna Tanner Kennedy, Michael Rossmy and Kelsey Rainwater! 

Conversations and praxis around anti-oppression, combat and intimacy, dramaturgy, power and contextual awareness helped us look critically at our work.

But most importantly, the decades and decades worth of collective faculty experience helped us better structure our directorial practices in devised and improvised drama, all leading to better research and documentation! So excited to see where all these learnings will take us.

Greetings!

We are looking to collaborate with
schools in Maharashtra for an exciting, fully funded opportunity with Oxfam India.

Are you a principal or a teacher? Or know someone who is?

Connect with us at the earliest - 9930403685
[Aanchal]

📢 REGISTRATIONS FOR CURTAIN CALL OPEN 📢

For May, we will be reading another interesting play at Curtain Call — The Love Suicides at Amijima, classic Bunraku play (puppet theatre) by Chikamatsu Monzaemon, written and performed around 1720 as Shinjū ten no Amijima. The play looks at the outcome of the brothel system through delving into themes of s*x work, desire and mental health, specifically from the perspective of the women working at these places. Like most of Chikamatsu’s more than 20 love-suicide dramas, it was based on an actual event.

It was with the plays written by Monzaemon that Puppet theatre reached its height in the 18th century. In 2003 UNESCO declared Bunraku a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.

🔷 22th May | 4pm IST | 10.30am GMT

‼️This time we have very limited seats! So hurry up and sign up on INSIDER! Link in bio.

🎭 Snippets from our TO Workshop

Behind the scenes from rehearsal day for the Forum Performances that the participants put up as a culmination of their rigourous training across 6 days!

🎭 Snippets from our TO Workshop

As a part of Thought Project's Theatre of the Oppressed Workshop in Mumbai, the participants put up their first ever Forum Performances as a culmination of their rigourous training in TO spanning over 48 hours.

The performances covered some of the themes around social justice that came up in discussions during the workshop like discrimination along the axis of gender and caste.

These pictures capture some magical moments from the forum performances that day!

Meet the lovely participants and our facilitator, Ravi Ramaswamy, who joined us at The Retreat House, Mumbai for our six-days long Theatre of the Oppressed Workshop. 🎭

📢 REGISTRATIONS FOR CURTAIN CALL OPEN 📢

For April, we will be reading another interesting play at Curtain Call — The Love Suicides at Amijima, classic Bunraku play (puppet theatre) by Chikamatsu Monzaemon, written and performed around 1720 as Shinjū ten no Amijima. The play looks at the outcome of the brothel system through delving into themes of s*x work, desire and mental health, specifically from the perspective of the women working at these places. Like most of Chikamatsu’s more than 20 love-suicide dramas, it was based on an actual event.

It was with the plays written by Monzaemon that Puppet theatre reached its height in the 18th century. In 2003 UNESCO declared Bunraku a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.

🔷 24th April | 4pm IST | 10.30am GMT

‼️This time we have very limited seats! So hurry up and sign up on INSIDER! Link in bio.

🎭 Interested to know more about Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed? Look at our TO Workshop call and come join us in discovering the magic of TO next month!

🔗 LINK IN BIO



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⁉️ Did you know that Augusto Boal, a Brazilian dramatist, was the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed? It is a form of interactive theatre intended to transform lives as spectators become performers, acting out solutions to social problems.

🎭 Interested to know more about Theatre of the Oppressed? Look at our TO Workshop call and come join us in discovering the magic of TO next month!

🔗 LINK IN BIO



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🎭 This World Theatre Day let's think about the transformatory potential that theatre holds for social change.

❓Share with us some plays, academic papers, excerpts, poems, and so on, that have inspired you to think about theatre from a social justice lens?



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