In dialogue with Abhishek

Abhishek is a theatre practitioner and I got a chance to catch up with him and talk about theatre and his thoughts on how does theatre evoke emotions and move spectator. 

Watching theatre plays, I am surprised by how it evokes a response. Closely watching the characters in near distance, the experience is different from many other different mediums. On asking, how does this work, Abhishek mentioned, “It’s with the proximity. You’ve two lively beings at the same place interacting with each other. You are an observer and slowly you take over the place of the actor and think accordingly. There's a lot of synchronicity in the process.

What’s with this proximity?

There are a lot of virtual mediums creating proximity, however they are virtual.

When we talk about proximity, we’ll never find that level of proximity through virtual mediums, I realized.

When we know that proximity brings humans together, why are we running away from each other and still craving for proximity. 

In a utilitarian society, Market, politics, culture, society drives the changes through different aspects.

For instance, in the urban landscape there’s less proximity in our lives. We wake up and spend half of our life in traveling to workplace and spend time at workplace. Limiting ourselves at the workplace, we've less proximity in the modern ways we work in. Limiting ourselves through digital medium, we're redefining the proximity and it affects the way we interact with others in real time unless we're aware of it. If we are not attentive, we become passive and isolated in our own bubbles.

Proximity affected by workplace and digital mediums effects our family landscape. Eventually, we’re running away from the warmth. As a society, it has a last longing effect.