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These workshops in Mumbai aims to revive forgotten love for William Shakespeare
Updated On: 10 June, 2024 09:16 AM IST | Mumbai | Shriram Iyengar
An upcoming workshop series seeks to revitalise the forgotten love for William Shakespeare’s plays, language and expression for the modern citizen
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A moment from The Taming Of The Shrew; (right) Romeo and Juliet
Growing up in Gujarat, actor and theatre maker Deshik Vansadia attended a Gujarati medium school, and made sure to learn just enough
English to clear his examinations. “As things would go, I ended up at Stella Adler’s Institute in Los Angeles. They gave me a speech by Edmund from King Lear for an exercise. I could not make sense of it,” the 37-year old laughs. The learnings from this experience, and a discovery of love for the bard, shape his upcoming
Shakespeare Foundation Workshop in the city.
The workshop goes beyond just acting, he points out. Graduating from Adler’s, and later working in Shakespeare productions in Los Angeles, sparked a love for the bard that led Vansadia to found the Shakespeare Company of India on his return in 2019. “I was working in theatre [in India], but I missed the language and the poetry. When I decided to start the venture, I remember theatre veteran Sunil Shanbag warning me that it won’t be easy,” he recalls. Since then, the director has gone on to stage productions of The Taming of The Shrew at Prithvi Theatre, as well as conduct readings of Shakespearean sonnets across Delhi
and Mumbai.
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