Audition

Written by Amitha Pagolu,
Directed by Indumathi Tamilselvan

Synopsis of Audition by Amitha Pagolu

On the cusp of leaving school, Divya must choose between following her passion for theatre and pleasing her family. As tension clouds the atmosphere at home, she escapes into her imagination to search for answers. But when tragedy strikes, her choice becomes more complicated than she could imagine.

Moving between reality and dreams, Audition shows us the intersection of warmth, love, and struggle at the heart of this special family.

Audition has been developed under the Playwrights Commune's long-term writers group, and was originally written for a workshop conducted by Haresh Sharma and The Necessary Stage.

Director’s Note

“Live in the moment.”

As idealistic as it sounds, I believe it’s the only thing that has made me survive this chaotic world thus far.

It made me worry less about the future, it made me trust more in my instincts, but most importantly, it made me appreciate – even the littlest things in life. I fear we don’t have enough appreciation going around the world these days. We take things for granted, we take people for granted, and we take time for granted. And when it’s too late, we grieve the loss of what could have been.

Time is a concept that has been manipulated in this play to re-live, to re-tell, and to reiterate that nothing stays the same forever. We live in a world that is constantly shifting, where change is inevitable. We carry with us a part of our past that shapes our future - and that’s all we need to know. It does us no good to live in the past, and it does us no good to predict the future.

I can’t control time, but I can control what I do in the present by consciously choosing to simply live in the moment.