META 2025: Stage of social expression

META 2025: Stage of social expression

A father beseeching the system to return his son, a mixologist hiding his Dalit identity to serve a casteist society, and a village struggling to find ways to survive the eccentric diktats of its ruler — these are some of the works to be staged at the ongoing META-2025 (Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards). And,…

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Actor Roshan Mathew discusses the creation of the Malayalam play Bye Bye Bypass, the process and what the team behind it means to him

Actor Roshan Mathew discusses the creation of the Malayalam play Bye Bye Bypass, the process and what the team behind it means to him

Actor Roshan Mathew’s sophomore directorial play Bye Bye Bypass, co-written with actor Shruti Ramachandran and screen writer and creative director Francis Thomas, is about a set of cousins of the Athimootil family, who lose their ancestral home to the construction of a bypass. The Malayalam play has been inspired by Roshan’s own, similar experience, which,…

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