Three playwrights — Annie Zaidi, Swetanshu Bora and Sneh Sapru — have been shortlisted for their works submitted for The Hindu Playwright Award 2018. The award, instituted in 2008, carries a prize of ₹ 2 lakh for the best original, unpublished and unperformed play script in English.
The three plays, Untitled 1 (Annie Zaidi), Guilt (Swetanshu Bora) and Hello Farmaish (Sneh Sapru), were chosen by a panel of three independent judges from a list of 68 plays submitted.
The judges had initially created a longlist of eight plays and from these three were selected. The other five are
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Hello Farmaish is a satire, which Ms. Sapru describes as a “drama with bold streaks of magic realism.” The Mumbai-based copywriter, screenwriter and playwright’s work is on people in a hamlet who, on hearing of Indian-American astronaut Kalpana Chawla’s journey into space, set off on adventures of their own. Ms. Sapru’s first play script, Elephant in the Room , was nominated for the Best Original Script at the META Awards 2017.
Bengaluru-based Swetanshu Bora’s
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The winner of The Hindu Playwright Award will be announced on August 9, 2018 on the eve of the opening of the 14th edition of The Hindu Theatre Fest in Chennai on August 10.