Entrepreneurship in Theatre

 

Entrepreneurship in Theatre

For young theatre-makers who are starting out in the field wanting to create their own work and theatre companies, a question that stumps them is: How does one start a theatre company with no money?

 

In an ecosystem that is starving for financial injections, it becomes a task for young theatre-makers to find their way to sustain a living through theatre and allied fields. Starting a theatre company, movement, collective, or a group is not an easy feat. It is a decision riddled with obstacles in any developing economy, with limited funds, infrastructural disadvantages and the ever-changing opinion about the arts. 

 

As we celebrate Ganesh Chaturthi, which in Hindu belief marks new beginnings followed by the removal of obstacles, we take this opportunity to explore stories of young theatre-makers who have started entrepreneurial ventures in theatre in India and ask them the challenges they faced and advice they have for anyone starting out today. They have not only combatted many lose-lose situations but most of them did it during humanity’s most trying few years in almost a whole century.

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