Darwin In India
A British Council-funded playwriting project exploring the links between Darwinism and Indian culture.
In 2009 Jeff Teare was awarded a British Council ‘Darwin Now’ Award to write a theatre piece about the influence, or lack of it, of Darwinism/Evolution on Indian thought and culture. He made two research visits to India to talk to scientists, academics and Swamijis. An early draft of the script was workshopped by members of Jagriti Theatre in October of 2009.
The play is now in a third draft and this draft is scheduled to receive a public reading at the Indian National Centre for Biological Sciences Bangalore on the 30th of June 2010.
Project Videos
Reading and Discussion of Darwin In India by Jeff Teare at the National Centre for Biolgical Sciences, Bangalore - June 2010.
Current Projects
- The Vaidya’s Oath
- Theatrescience on TEDx
- Moving Stories - Moving On
- Moving Stories - Moving On
- Bulgakov Moments
- Theatrescience 2002-2012
- Article on Jeff Teare’s new Lysistrata in The Hindu
- Not My Fault
- ‘State of Nature’ by Simon Turley
- ‘Extremely Brief and Violent’ by Selma Dimitrijevic
- ‘50/50’ by Alison Falconer
- Young Writers at Eden
- Darwin In India
Current Projects
- ‘Bad Blood Blues’ performed at the Museum of Life in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- Something Somatic
- NCBS Residency and Plays
- ‘Telling Stories’ Wellcome Trust International Public Engagement Workshop
- Theatrescience in Uganda
- India in London
- Imaginging the Future India
- The Theatre of Science at Theatre Royal Plymouth