‘Women in theatre were more liberated back in the 1960s-1980s’ Premium

Sharanya Ramprakash, who has made a mark as a performer and director over the last 15 years through her plays such as Nava, Akshyambara, Project Darling and many more shared her experience of being one among the few women directors in Kannada theatre. The young director talks about her choice of plays, language barriers, and how her recent play Project Darling is relevant to women theatre performers in this age too.

Sharanya Ramprakash, who has made a mark as a performer and director over the last 15 years through her plays such as Nava, Akshyambara, Project Darling and many more shared her experience of being one among the few women directors in Kannada theatre. The young director talks about her choice of plays, language barriers, and how her recent play Project Darling is relevant to women theatre performers in this age too.

Project Darling, centred around the lives of women company theatre actors from the 1960s-80s, produced by Prakash Raj’s theatre incubation centre Nirdinganta and supported by India Foundation for the Arts (IFA). The director calls the play her own search for “professional ancestry.” It was performed at Shoonya, Centre for Art and Somatic Practices, at Bengaluru, on November 18.