BOSTON—As SETU celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, Stage Ensemble Theater Unit Co-Founder Subrata Das talks about acting, directing and training budding actors.
In an exclusive video interview with INDIA New England News, Mr. Das provides some remarkable tips on acting. To watch the full interview, please click here, or on the image below.
SETU is a 501(c)(3) non-profit theater group in the Boston area since 2003. SETU means “bridge” in several Indian languages and the organization’s mission is to build bridges between Indian and Western cultures through the medium of theater.
SETU selectively produces plays in English to project the ways of life in India in a global context. SETU’s plays portrays India’s social, political and economic scenarios from the past and the present, highlighting both our rich cultural heritage and social malaise. India has intellectually deep and diverse tradition in drama beginning from ancient times by Sanskrit playwrights. Indian theater has found expressions in diverse forms from folk theater to musicals to modern drama forms. SETU attempts to present some of these in the contemporary context and, in the process, create a better appreciation of India’s heritage and culture.
SETU’s founding members include Mr. Das, Jayanti Bandyopadhyay, Rita Sengupta, Charubrata Ray, Debasish Raychaudhury, and late Deepak Deb.
