Written by Dipanita Nath |Updated: April 3, 2019 12:12:50 pm
Theatre director Chanakya Vyas on Algorithms, a play that delves into the lives of cab drivers in an app-based industry
Chankya Vyas, artistic director of Bengaluru-based theatre company Indian Ensemble, is a chatty passenger when he is travelling by cabs. A couple of years of drawing life stories out of cab drivers, Vyas realised that he was staring at a potential play on a subject that was hidden in plain sight.
Chankya Vyas, artistic director of Bengaluru-based theatre company Indian Ensemble, is a chatty passenger when he is travelling by cabs. A couple of years of drawing life stories out of cab drivers, Vyas realised that he was staring at a potential play on a subject that was hidden in plain sight. “In the last two years, there has been an increase in the number of app-based services across India that has changed the way people move in a city. In the seamlessness of the system, several issues, such as workers’ rights, were being discussed in certain circles only, such as among academics. It was important that theatre also responded,” says Vyas. In his thirties, Vyas is an engineer who quit the corporate life to create theatre and teach at a school. The 90-minute play that he has written and directed on the lives of cabbies, titled Algorithms, will be staged in Mumbai on April 4. Excerpts from a conversation:
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