Theatre should be inexpensive and light, says Probir Guha

Kochi | Thursday | 20th July, 2017

Summary:

So many spaces which they had never thought of until then,” said Mr.

Guha, director of the Alternative Living Theatre and Theatre Lab in Kolkata, who was in town the other day to conduct a theatre workshop. more-inTry impressing veteran theatre personality Probir Guha on the lack of adequate performance spaces in Kerala, and he will tell you, without blinking an eye, that there are enough spaces that remain unexplored. He is a regular at the PJ Antony Memorial Theatre fest, Theruvarangu, but he thinks they should organise a national theatre workshop instead of the fest and that “the plays evolving at the workshop could be performed at the end of it.” Not for him the grand multimedia-enabled theatre performances that have come to be the order of the day. Sometime ago, he had conducted a workshop in which participants were asked to find their own spaces to perform..