![]() ![]() “And I think what’s happened over the last year, in a very profound way, has been a shift towards seeing the art through the world and how we think about our relationship to it. Since he took over as the artistic director in 2016, Cal Shakes has invested their resources and energy into seeing the world through the art that they made. For the last 10 years, Cal Shakes has been committed to pursuing an anti-racist journey as an organization. ![]() Similarly, for Ting, the artistic director of California Shakespeare Theatre (Cal Shakes) in Orinda, California, the past year has changed the lens through which he views the world. So, there has been an enormous change in the way I think about community, art making and theatre-making,” she reflects. “It was also a practical reason to move back because the people, the farmers who worked on our land, also wanted to return to their home. One of the prime reasons for her move to her farm, Infinite Souls, was the migrant crisis that ensued in India where labourers found themselves walking back to their hometowns across the country when the first lockdown was announced abruptly. “I moved completely out of an urban circumstance to living on my farm, to farming and trying to find new engagements with theatre through the land,” she elaborates. For Bengaluru-based theatre maker Kirtana Kumar, the pandemic resulted in an enormous change in her life. ![]() The last one year has been transformative for everyone around the world. ![]() In the recent conversation Unrehearsed Futures (Season 2), global theatre-makers Eric Ting and Kirtana Kumar delved deep into how the pandemic has changed their communities in terms of who they engage with and who they engage for. Among the many things the past year has made us reflect upon, owing to COVID-19 induced social isolation, one of them is questioning and answering for ourselves: Who is our community? Who are the people we want and need around us? If we take this a step further, what are the many levels of community in which theatre companies participate? ![]()
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