mouth and audiences started accepting the play, responding with smiles and standing ovations. Our hard work and training was finally paying off, but the icing on the cake was when we got a call to perform at ‘Thespo at Prithvi’. It felt as if the circle was complete. At ‘Out of the Box Productions’ Suketu Shah, my copartner handles the marketing section along with maintaining accounts, I concentrate on writing the script and Murtuza on direction. A big advantage of being in a partnership is that your work is effectively divided on the basis of interest. We criticize each other’s work as well as motivate one another to work harder. This helped us in creating an open relationship which is essential to create a good rehearsal atmosphere and is conducive for our creative juices to flow. Setting up a theatre company with my college mates was the best decision I could have made. Our journey has just begun and we hope to learn a lot more, entertain many more and take our plays to diverse audiences so that they too can experience the wonder that is theatre.
Abhishek Pattnaik is a writer, actor and co-founder of Out of the Box Productions.
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