Theatre is one of the most visceral forms of storytelling, a living and breathing collaborative art form. At the heart of all plays is a conflict. Whether you’ve never written anything before, you’re experienced in any form of writing, or you’re a playwright looking to sharpen your skills, “Write Your Own Play” offers clear, step-by-step guidance in : characterization, conflict and structure, setting, knots of tension, codes of character, dialogue and formatting.

SAPP brings you an online interactive lecture series that deals with the Visual language in Theatre. Over the Three Days, the lecture will attempt to discuss the aesthetics of visual theatre and the blurring boundaries of different art forms. Following Topics will be discussed:

– Western and Eastern Understanding of Aesthetics
– Textual Imagination to Visual Imagination
– Introduction to Scenography – Revisiting Dadaism
– Meaning Making and Visual Theatre
– Lived Experience and Devised Theatre
– Postmodernist Artists and Performance Art

Literature or Historical Incantation?
– Reconnoitring Magical Realism
– The Art of Fiction Writing
– Book to Film Adaptation

Gabriel García Márquez was a master of the literary genre known as magical realism, in which the miraculous and the real converge. Márquez’s stories are often historical ones located in very specific geographical and cultural spaces that he inhabited until he grew up. And therefore, in his novels and stories, storms rage for years, paper planes drift from the skies like lightning bolts, forlorn lovers meet in dreams, Men with enormous wings visit strange towns, flowers that bleed and corpses that fail to decompose but remain fragrant. This talk by Dr. Omkar Bhatkar shall cover the book ‘Of Love and Other Demons’ and discuss themes such as Hybridity, Ironies of Existence, Magical Realism , Craft of writing Fiction and conclude with the adaptation of the novel into the film

Personal Experiences, Universality and Writing
– Autobiography and Fiction Writing
– Women and Creativity
– Reader and Writer Relationship -Inter subjectivity
– Semi Autobiographical Novels

Of all the existentialist philosophers, Simone De Beauvoir articulates the most compelling theory of the novel in light of her understanding of the relationship between literature and philosophy. Yet her critical work on the philosophical significance of novelistic realism have gone largely ignored by scholars, who consider her novels philosophical insofar as they explore existentialist themes and subjects . This talk by Dr. Omkar Bhatkar shall look more into her thoughts about philosophical literature, intersubjectivity, reader-writer relationship , women and writing. Also the talk shall reflect upon Beauvoir’s semi autobiographical works such as ‘Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter’ (1958) and ‘A Very Easy Death’ (1964).

– Deconstructing the idea of ‘woman’
– Philosophy of Existence
– Meaning of Literature for Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir was one of the most preeminent French existentialist philosophers and writers. Working alongside other famous existentialists such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, de Beauvoir produced a rich corpus of writings including works on ethics, feminism, fiction, autobiography, and politics. this talk by Dr. Omkar Bhatkar shall look more into her Fiction Writing rather than her academic writing. It would deconstruct the idea of ‘Woman’ and touch upon the existentialist ideas of being and becoming. Her philosophy of existence would be explored through her semi autobiographical writings And conclude with Beauvoir’s understanding of ‘Literature’.