Natrang’s National Theatre Talk Show
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JAMMU: Natrang’s National Theatre Talk Show, ‘Young Voices of Theatre’, on the Facebook page of Natrang featured Sangeet Natak Akademi’s Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Awardee, NSD alumni, theatre director and light designer, Meeta Mishra on Saturday in the 47th episode where she shared her inspirational thoughts with the global audience.
Meeta Mishra has acted in more than 20 plays. Recently she has acted in ‘Leila’, a Netflix original series under the direction of Deepa Mehta.
Ministry of Culture’s Junior Fellowship holder, Meeta has conducted workshops in acting, designing and teaching for Theatre and is a practicing light designer too.
She has to her credit more than 200 shows within a span of 3 years for only light design and execution as a freelancer all over India for dance and Theatre shows.
She loves to design costumes and also teaches acting, direction, costume design and light design.
Meeta has headed the LTG Repertory Company as a Repertory Chief, Acting trainer and Director for almost five years.
In a thought provoking conversation with Natrang’s senior artist Neeraj Kant, Meeta narrated her eventful journey of theatre which started in early childhood.
Being featured on the auspicious occasion of Guru Purnima, she expressed her heartfelt gratitude towards all her teachers. By the time she reached college, theatre had already become an integral part of her life.
Before getting selected at NSD, Meeta already had gained international experience but she thought that academic training would give a new depth to her personality and it proved true for her as it was an enlightening experience. She asserts that one gets an opportunity to live theatre there.
Speaking about her style of direction, she believes in putting self behind and character in front. She considers herself as an actor’s director who does not believe in thrusting her ideology on the actors rather keeps an ample space for their say as well. A widely travelled designer, Meeta believes that to establish a strong local connect, learning more languages is very advantageous, moreover, fascinated by different languages, she has translated many meaningful works.
Speaking about the present time of corona crisis, she shares that it was the need of the hour to be tech friendly and one shall be open to it.