Every year, Thespo invites young blood in theatre from all over the country to showcase their best work to audiences in Mumbai. This year, a young group from Delhi, called Team 9.30 that aims to be part of Thespo, will present legendary playwright Badal Sircar’s play Pagla Ghoda and Ashish Pathak’s Popcorn, for the city’s theatre enthusiasts. The plays however do not credit any one member of the team for direction. “All of us have trained under our guru Arvind Gaur. We were part of the 9.30 am batch, and we decided to go with that when it came to deciding the name of the group.

Each member has contributed to the play that we have created,” says Chahat Singla, a team member. Apart from Singla, the team consists of Tanisha Sharma, Rishi, Cherry Bansal, Devaang Tomar, Prashant Menwal, Ayush Mishra, Nitin and Pintu Gedam.