An Interview with Abhishek Majumdar and Gopal Datt

HowlRound: In August 2013, Steve Raider-Ginsburg traveled to Bangalore, India, in order to build an artistic collaboration between HartBeat and the Indian Ensemble. This meeting provided an opportunity to experience, explore, and mediate issues of cultural difference. It also allowed the artistic leadership of both ensembles to begin to define narrative ideas along with crafting a sustainable strategy to move a collaborative project, East West Stories (working title), forward. During this visit, Steve talked with the Indian Ensemble Artistic Director, Abhishek Majumdar, and actor, Gopal Datt, about East West Stories and about living and working in India as a theater artist.