Actor Shernaz Patel speaks about supervising the transition of theatre to benefit an online audience at Aadyam, and what this shift means to the artform’s future
Shernaz Patel holds on to the memory of the last time she set foot on stage, in early March this year in Australia, to perform The Siddhus of Upper Juhu. The world had yet to wake up to the brutality of COVID-19 at that point, and now more than six months after theatres shut down due to lockdown, she reminisces: “I miss the smell of theatre.”
The veteran actor who made her theatre debut with The Diary of Anne Frank in 1984, is now set to curate the first ever digital edition of Aadyam, the theatre wing of Aditya Birla group. As the group’s artistic director, Shernaz is helming the efforts to bring stage to screen by presenting three rehearsed and recorded plays in November for a worldwide audience.
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