Kerala's theatre projects gets Ibsen scholarship

A theatre project from Kerala has won this year's International Ibsen Scholarship initiated by Norwegian government.
The scholarship is awarded for innovative projects in the field of drama and performing arts.
'The Indian Theatre Roots & Wings' based in Kerala won the scholarship "for its initiative of using Brand and Peer Gynt as a stepping stone for a forum theatre project involving indigenous communities" in the state.
According to a release, the project shows "great inventiveness both in its interpretation of the two plays and the way they thematise identities and conflicts between traditional and modern societies".
"At the same time, the project has great value in the way that it involves local communities in theatre work and thus contributes to creating new awareness of their situation socially and culturally," it said.

The Director of the project Sankar Chindavalap Venkatesvaran presented an "inventive and artistically superb" version of When We Dead Awaken at the 2012 Delhi Ibsen Festival, the release added.
The International Ibsen Scholarship was initiated in 2007.