But are they even relevant today? I want people to write, else we’ll become as old as the plays,” Deshpande told PTI.
The playwright-director, who has come to Delhi after a long span of 12 years for his play “Sir Sir Sarla”, criticised theatre institutes like National School of Drama for “sticking to curriculum” and “not going on tour to find new plays” as they used to do earlier.
“I came to NSD’s Rang Mahotsav in 1995 when Ram Gopal Bajaj was the head. After him, it has changed. Now they select plays based on a DVD, don’t they have time to take a tour around the country and choose new plays?
