Workshop by Sahir Mehta – In Residence for Poison

Introduction to Improvising

Join us for a dynamic and interactive Introduction to Improvising workshop with Sahir Mehta, designed to help you embrace spontaneity, build confidence, and sharpen your storytelling skills. Whether you're new to improv or looking to refine your skills, this session will provide a solid foundation through fun and engaging exercises.

What to Expect:

The 5 Basic Rules of Improv: Learn the core principles, including "Yes, and," active listening, and making your scene partner look good.

CROW (Character, Relationship, Objective, Where): Explore key elements that create engaging and grounded scenes.

Basic Scene Structure: Understand how to build and sustain compelling improv scenes.

Finding the Game: Discover how to identify and heighten comedic or dramatic patterns.

Building Trust & Jumping In! Gain confidence in taking creative risks and supporting your fellow performers.

Come ready to play, take risks, and have fun! No prior experience needed—just an open mind and a willingness to jump in.

G5A presents

POISON

Staring Mansi Multani and Shantanu Anam

Directed by Sahir Mehta

Produced by G5A as part of In Residence

Supported by BNP Paribas

Synopsis:

Can you ever move on from your grief? How? Should you even want to?

A formerly married couple is reunited for the first time in around a decade at the cemetery where their tragically young son was buried. What follows is an intense push and pull between bitterness and tenderness, strangeness and closeness.

Cast and Credits:

Director: Sahir Mehta

Cast: Mansi Multani and Shantanu Anam

Dramaturgy and Production: Anoushka Zaveri

Sound Design: Ananda Dhar James

Sound Operator: Geetika Gupta

Lights Team: Adi Shastri and Prerna

Set Design: Vivek Jadhav

G5A

produces and co-creates interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary work that is bold, experimental, and just.

In Residence, a production series, creates space for practitioners to explore their craft, form, and expression to consistently and rigorously refine their practice. Each production is hosted over an extended duration at the warehouse, enabling work that is multidisciplinary and grounded in traditional and contemporary performance methods.