Stray Factory

Stray Factory is a south Indian theatre company formed in 2010 and based in Chennai, India. The company is an entertainment collaborative with a network of actors, writers, musicians and artists. The primary focus of the collaborative is to travel globally with original, local content. [1][2]

Stray Factory Entertainment was founded on July 17, 2010 by Mathivanan Rajendran. The group now consists of seven core members. [3][4]

The group has experimented with a number of concepts including bar room comedies, blog work, digital content, theatre training, short plays and full length plays. [5][6][7] Their biggest achievements have been in the short format, particularly in the Short and Sweet festivals. For their play My Name is Cine-Ma, they won the top three awards at the Chennai edition of the festival: Best Actress, Best Director and Audience Choice. The play then traveled to Mumbai and then Kuala Lumpur where it won in the same three categories. [8] Other award winning productions at the festival include Lost Audition, Chairpersons and Maya from Madurai. [9][10]

Stray Factory has performed over 20 pieces in 5 countries, including Australia, Dubai and Malaysia. [11] In 2012, their award winning short play My Name is Cine-Ma was staged as a 30 minute version at the Kakiseni Theatre Festival, as a street theatre piece. The following year, it premiered as a full length version at the Goodman Arts Center in Singapore. [12][13] In 2013, the group toured the country with a number of its short plays, as a part of the seventh edition of The Park's New Festival. [14]

Most of Stray Factory's original writing comes from its in-house writers. These include Mathivanan Rajendran, Nikhil Sriram, Naren Weiss and Rajiv Rajaram. [15] As a part of the 2012 Metroplus Theatre Festival, local playwright Shreekumar Varma's Ganga at Rishikesh was staged. [16]

A number of Stray Factory's members have forayed into films. [17] Venkatesh Harinathan plays the lead in Sutta Kadhai and has a supporting role in Irandam Ulagam. [18] Mathivanan Rajendran and Pooja Balu were both seen in Selvaraghavan's Mayakkam Enna as well. In addition, Rajendran will also be seen in Vallinam. [19]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The Hindu, 2013-04-19
  2. ↑ The New Festival, 2013
  3. ↑ Stray Factory, n.d.
  4. ↑ The Hindu, 2010-05-17
  5. ↑ Stray Factory, n.d.
  6. ↑ APE, n.d.
  7. ↑ Stray Studio, 2013
  8. ↑ The Hindu, 2010-05-17
  9. ↑ Short Plays, n.d.
  10. ↑ The Hindu, 2013-07-08
  11. ↑ About us, n.d.
  12. ↑ My Theatre Cafe, n.d.
  13. ↑ RDG Singapore (PDF), n.d.
  14. ↑ Business Standard, 2013-09-13
  15. ↑ Kathai Kadai, n.d.
  16. ↑ The Hindu, 2012-07-26
  17. ↑ New Festival, 2013
  18. ↑ The New Indian Express, 2013-04-08
  19. ↑ Vallinam news, n.d.
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