Sound of silence

As he strives to put India on the world stage, NSD Director Waman Kendre keeps his plays centred around voices that often go unheard

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In a remote village with 30 houses or so in Maharashtra’s Beed district, Waman Kendre, a farmer’s son,  would often watch his father perform bharud — an impromptu performance of dance, recitations and enactment based on the poetry of saints — or sneak out of his house to watch visiting nautankis. The lives of the farmers and performers were intertwined. And before he would even realise it, Kendre’s life and theatre too became intertwined.   As head of the National School of Drama, or NSD, Kendre has come a long way from Daradwadi. The ...

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Sound of silence