Resisting decay: The Decade of Activist theatre calling out Bigotry Sanjay’s repertoire and directorial skills took an upward fillip as in addition to the early prioritising of gender, the theatre he directs took on a distinct position against right wing thought, orthodoxy and above these religious bigotry. We see the coming together of naturalistic techniques of …
Plays with Hansraj College Dram Soc. 1987 – Lorca’s Blood Wedding (1932) Lorca’s lyrical use of a Spanish love story as point of entry critiquing violence and the masculinity (machismo) lying at the core of our social living provided the first critique of the masculine and the patriarchal. The play was tentatively staged in the …
Pandies is possibly the only example of theatre emanating from a college society and moving on to establish credentials as an internationally famous theatre group. The Gendered Nineties: The growth of the performer/teacher as activist Crucial decades as pandies moved away from college theatre to establish a vibrant identity. For sanjay these were crucial learning …
Sanjay Kumar’s involvement with proscenium theatre goes back to his Delhi school – Modern School, at Humayun Road and at Barakhamba Road, participating in theatre every year of his life there. From 1987, this passion led him to six years of directing a play every year at Hansraj College, his place of work, with the …
Plays with Hansraj College Dram Soc. 1987 – Lorca’s Blood Wedding (1932) Lorca’s lyrical use of a Spanish love story as point of entry critiquing violence and the masculinity (machismo) lying at the core of our social living provided the first critique of the masculine and the patriarchal. The play was tentatively staged in …
Workshopping in Kashmir pandies in Kashmir This was the most difficult and possibly, potentially the most promising exploration of workshop theatre for Sanjay Kumar. Penetrating one of the oldest conflict zones in the subcontinent, possibly in the world …
Platform Children The train leaving the platform Possibly the most dangerous and certainly the most challenging foray in workshop theatre. At least 10 international seminar presentations and invited talks have been made by Sanjay around this work and the play Offtrack (2012), scripted and directed by him, staged in Delhi and then in New York …
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Outreach at Shaktishalini shelter pandies and Shaktishalini Pandies connection with Shaktishalini is the oldest and possibly the deepest of ties among like minded organisations. This tie graphs the growth of the writer director over decades of performance. Sanjay’s interaction with Shaktishalini started 1996 while researching on cases of Dayan Hatya (witch burning) for the pandies’ …