Director Emma Callandar in a playwriting workshop. Pics/Pradeep Dhivar

Talks of x, y and π fill a sun-kissed room at the British Council on a late Wednesday afternoon. Actors, all well-known names in the Mumbai theatre circuit, read from scripts, and pause to check a phrase or two with the playwrights sitting before them. After listening in for a couple of minutes, the plot begins to unravel. The complex equations stand for complex relationships among three individuals, and the subject being dealt with here is that of bisexuality. Witty for a professional playwright, but astonishing, as is the case here, for a group of 14-year-olds.