Actor Vivek Mansukhani, who returns to the stage with Animals Out Of Paper, plays an eccentric high school math teacher in the production | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Actor Vivek Mansukhani, who returns to the stage with Animals Out Of Paper, plays an eccentric high school math teacher in the production | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Written by Dipanita Nath |Updated: June 6, 2019 7:27:00 am

Actor Vivek Mansukhani, who returns to the stage with Animals Out Of Paper, plays an eccentric high school math teacher in the production

The play, by Pulitzer Prize-nominated Rajiv Joseph, also marks Mansukhani’s return to the stage as an actor after seven years.

Origami piece titled Folded Yin Folded Yang

Vivek Mansukhani is learning the joys of folding paper. “It boggles me that one can do so much from a simple sheet of paper. What we begin with and what we end with are completely different. It makes one think that one’s creativity is more important than the resources one has at one’s disposal,” he says. What brought Mansukhani, the former Director Arts India at the British Council, into shaping stuff out of paper, is a much-lauded play called Animals Out of Paper. Mansukhani plays an eccentric math teacher, Andy, whose high-school student is an origami prodigy. The play, by Pulitzer Prize-nominated Rajiv Joseph, also marks Mansukhani’s return to the stage as an actor after seven years.