Stills from the play

Located 500km from Mumbai is Jamb Samarth, a village in Jalna district of Maharashtra that is home to 3,000 farmers. Several of them toil in fields through the day, and in the evening, gather on the front yard of the village temple to practise dialogues and share notes on acting. They are part of Rang Mala theatre troupe, which has been staging Marathi plays across the state for 22 years. Two artistes from the troupe, Rajkumar Tangde and Kailash Waghmare, will be part of The Drama School of Mumbai's third edition of a monthly conversation series. "The idea is to shed light on people from different backgrounds who are contributing to theatre," says Yugandhar Deshpande, series co-curator.