NIKHIL MEHTA, KRITI PANT, DHWANI VIJ, KRITTIKA BHATTACHARJEE, NEEL SENGUPTA, KSHITIJ MERVIN EKKA, NIHARIKA LYRA DUTT AND PRASHANT PRAKASH MODERATED BY SANJOY ROY

‘For The Record’ won a META for Best Original Script and dramatises representations of culture and the processes that interpret it. The brilliant script was a result of the whole team coming together to write it. This conversation between the writers focuses on the entire process of writing a taut storyline that translates into a gripping production.

SUVEERAN and SHEREEN SAIF MODERATED BY CHANDRADASAN

A play based on an acclaimed novel, Bhaskara Pattelarum Thommiyude Jeevithavum by famous Malayalam writer Paul Zacharia, META 2020 winner ‘Bhaskara Pattelarum’ is a perfect example of an adapted screenplay of an original work seamlessly expressed through a grand and almost cinematic stage design. This conversation, with the play director and an actor, pivots around the nuances of the adapted screenplay and the stage design that provides it with the appropriate backdrop.

SAHIDUL HAQUE, BARNALI MEDHI AND NIRANJAN NATH MODERATED BY NAYAN PRASAD

‘The Old Man’, an Assamese take on the Hemingway classic The Old Man & the Sea, won a META for acting and choreography. This conversation centres around the juxtaposition of movement with acting that this play so effectively achieves.

SAURAV PALODHI, APRATIM SARKAR, SOUMEN CHAKRABORTY and DEBDEEP MUKHERJEE MODERATED BY BISHNUPRIYA DUTT

‘Ghoom Nei’, a META 2020 winner, excels in sound design, lighting and costume. This conversation, with the play’s sound, light and costume design crew, will shed light on the integral role of these design elements in the trajectory of a compelling stage production.