Writer’s Bloc 4
29.05.2014
Playwriting has always
faced extinction - the lucre of cinema and television tempting the young
writer. In 2002, nurtured by Rage Productions and the
British Council, UK’s international organization for cultural relations created
as a unique playwrights’ program me, Writers’
Bloc which put the script at the focal point of the theatrical experience. The idea is novel and the process is at once simple and complex -
playwrights from around the country are selected by a panel of theatre
practitioners, the prestigious Royal Court Theatre, UK and then put through
intensive training workshops. The scripts that emerge from these intense
brainstorming sessions and workshops will then be staged at what a novel
concept is called Writers’ Bloc Festival.
Conceptualized in 2004
the festival has blossomed in 2007 and 2012, producing 32 playwrights who've
had their work staged both in India and abroad especially the UK. Young playwrights from across India writing stories of human
conflict and struggle and love and hope and set in backdrops ranging from
Kashmir and Orissa to metropolis like Mumbai and Bangalore, this is indeed a
fruitful experiment in the new theatre language.
Bhawana Somaaya / Tweets - @bhawanasomaaya
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