Titled Curtain Call, a virtual theatre event that started in June 2020 allows participants to read plays along with a group. The event is organised by Thought Project, a feminist group that offers training and consultation services to schools, universities and other such entities on issues of gender, sexuality, diversity and inclusion.

“Before the lockdown, for one of our gender sensitisation workshops, I had to read a play with around 30 characters, and I couldn’t keep track, so I got two friends to read some of the lines. The process of reading and discussing the play with a group was exhilarating. It was then that we realised that play reading is a community activity and cannot be done in solitude. This was the nascent thought behind Curtain Call, an online community initiative to read plays,” says 28-year-old, Aanchal Jain, founder, Thought Project.