For Kerala-based director and theatre artiste Akash Nath, the pandemic did not resist creative forces from taking over. In fact, the period gave him more room and time to experiment with his style. What resulted was FRET, Nath’s newest play that will be aired and performed entirely on virtual platform Zoom. “For me, with theatre, there was a lot of room for trial and error. From an artiste’s point of view, to revive theatre and keep it going, Zoom is a good platform; it’s adaptive as well so why not use that? Every performer is struggling to find a space where they can create their art while also earning a living. It’s important that this keeps happening in the future as well because nobody can guarantee that another virus won’t wipe out our earnings completely,” he says.

A still from the English  version of the play that will be streamed entirely on  Zoom