CHANAKYA VYAS
LOVE AND INFORMATION (2023)
HAMLETS LIVE (2022)
HAMLETS Live is a series of six short monologues in which different actors respond to the soliloquies narrated in the play by Hamlet.
This online performance conceived by Chanakya Vyas is enacted live in front of an audience, who—through a series of playful provocations—are invited to share their interpretation of the soliloquies. Moving beyond the representation of Hamlet as a one-dimensional, revenge hungry protagonist, Vyas’s production demonstrates the all too human qualities of the tragic hero; inspiring the actors and the audience to locate the Hamlet in their everyday lives.
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Medium: Video and Performance
Year: 2022
Click here to read more: HAMLETS Live — Science Gallery Bengaluru
JHUND(2021)
Two strangers are locked up in a mysterious room while trying to escape from an unknown occurrence outside, seen as a threat to humans. Their phones are tampered with, their data is lost and as time passes, the only way to know about the outside is to stay in and join the cryptic social network created for the ones who are still alive. But how long will they choose to play along?
The play is inspired from and based on two source texts: Ashok Mishra’s Hindi Translation of Slawomir Mrozek’s play ‘Striptease’ and Ghanshyam Desai’s Gujarati short story 'The Crowd'.
An Indian Ensemble production
Written & Directed by Chanakya Vyas
To read more about the play, click here
Someone sneezes. Someone can’t get a signal. Someone won’t answer the door. Someone’s not ready to talk. Someone is her brother’s mother. Someone hates irrational numbers. Someone told the police. Someone got a message from the traffic light. Someone’s never felt like this before.
This play by Caryl Churchill is like a fast moving kaleidoscope, where several characters try to make sense of what they know.
Performed by the In Person batch of 2022-23 of the PG Course in Acting & Theatre-making of Drama School Mumbai.
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Credits:
Written by Caryl Churchill
Directed by Chanakya Vyas
ONCE THERE WAS A LAKE(2020-21)
Once there was a lake, in its physical avatar was envisioned as a participatory and interactive performance designed for 12 players/audience members. They would engage through a board game and presume the role of residents of a fictional, nameless neighborhood, where once there was a lake. Their objective in the game is to revive the lake by making some crucial decisions and while they’re at it, they also listen to stories that reveal the past and the present about the neighborhood.
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To play the game and read more, click here: Once there was a Lake
ALGORITHMS(2018)
Algorithms is a play inspired from the interviews of life stories of migrant cab drivers that seem to drive a large part of the population in urban cities. The lure and appeal of the app- based economy drive the exodus of semi-skilled workers -from neighbouring towns and conventional jobs- leading to a new way of looking at the future of work in cities.
The play takes a closer peek into the stories of three drivers namely Santosh Kumar, Umesh and Shankar Singh, who are encountering the app based economy at different stages of their lives and highlights their struggles, joy and desires in a technology-mediated world.
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Trailer: (659) Algorithms by Indian Ensemble - Showreel - YouTube