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Five artistes — Pallavi Verma Minnaganti, Madhuri Dempsey, Shikha Gupta, Rahul Premchander and Tarusha Saxena — person travel unneurotic to revive the Pomegranate Collective successful Hyderabad. The Collective includes a radical of theatre professionals and enthusiasts. The archetypal successful this renewed bid is Ananos, an online script-reading inaugural named aft the Greek word derived from anagnoste, meaning ‘reader’.
“There is nary azygous person here; each 5 of america person an adjacent involvement successful the collective,” says Pallavi, who brought the radical backmost together. The Collective had earlier performed astatine Dramanon’s SKiTS 2025.
Diverse radical
Pallavi is simply a theatre manager and histrion and a performing arts teacher astatine Eager Readers and CHIREC International School. Madhuri is simply a writer, portion Shikha, Rahul and Tarusha travel from backgrounds successful expressive arts therapy, originative plan and events, and are besides progressive successful theatre. In summation to the halfway group, the corporate had Shruti and theatre histrion Jonas David arsenic members.
The Pomegranate Collective was formed successful February 2025, with the sanction coined by Pallavi during her exploration of Madhubani art. She was drawn to the effect arsenic a motif, peculiarly its galore seeds. “They correspond our thought of bringing divers individuals unneurotic to make a singular dependable connected stage,” she explains. “I besides emotion the effect for its colour and form. Across cultures, the pomegranate symbolises fertility and abundance, which aligns with our purpose — to cultivate fertile minds and nurture creativity done galore caller ideas.” Explaining the information down starting the script-reading initiative, Pallavi says, “Theatre productions were taking excessively agelong to beryllium staged, and galore were opening to consciousness repetitive.”
Of contented and movement
A country from the monologue performed astatine Dramanon’s SKiTS 2025 — a 12-minute short-play competition | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
Members instrumentality turns starring brainstorming sessions, held either astatine 1 another’s homes oregon successful workplace spaces. Pallavi describes these meet-ups arsenic fluid exchanges astir contented and movement. “Each of america brings a antithetic expertise, which helps america determination towards our goals. We bespeak connected what we’ve achieved — however acold we’ve progressed successful storytelling — and physique from determination successful the adjacent session.”
The year-old collective’s archetypal devised portion was built astir Prospero’s monologue from Shakespeare and performed astatine Dramanon’s SKiTS 2025 — a 12-minute short-play contention that uses a unrecorded camera and onstage screen. The radical imagined 4 characters — an actor, an aspirant, a prima and a manager — each delivering the aforesaid monologue, shaped by their chiseled circumstances.
After a little lull successful caller months owed to idiosyncratic commitments, the Collective is present gearing up for a caller slate of activities including the online speechmaking initiative. “The online meet-ups assistance theatre friends from different cities to join,” says Pallavi.
Updates connected their upcoming events and activities tin beryllium recovered connected their societal media pages @the_pomegranate_collective .
