Acting is team work

Seeing himself in the role of a
craftsman, playwright-director Mahesh Dattani says acting is also a team work.
The English theatre craftsman-playwright feels, every performing artiste's role should be to make the most possible use of the medium
Dattani, who penned 'On A Muggy Night in Mumbai', conducted a workshop on a sultry noon here comprising professionals - people from divergent backgrounds as diverse as film production team members, to journo-critics, students and executives all sharing the same passion for theatre.
"I see myself as a craftsman and not as a writer. To me, being a playwright is all about seeing myself as a part of the process of a production. I write plays for the sheer pleasure of communicating through this dynamic medium," Dattani said.

"He showed how meditation can be taken to another level as even among hundreds of co-participants," Satrajit Sen, having been associated with the production part in several recent content-rich new wave Bengali flicks, said.

"Didn't look like we were interacting with a person who have delivererd such intense urban plays like the 30 Days in September and Bravely Fought the Queen," Sen said.
Asked if in some of his plays, he seeks to project how caught up we all are in the complications and contradictions of our values and assumptions Dattani said, "As you see it."
Dattani who shared his experience of both stage and motion pictures with the participants including students of ILEAD, said, "The participants have an abiding interest in acting. I wish to come over again to this city."

"The participants will no doubt go back as different persons after interacting with Dattani and can make forays into acting," an ILEAD spokesperson said.