Aish Pandit, who plays Maya, will be debuting as a performer. When we ask her how she went about working on such a complex character, she recalls that it helped break the process into two parts. “One was studying the objective side of the character, which included facts like what she studied, who’s in her family, what her job is. The other was studying the subjective bit which had to do with the soul of her character. It was important for me to look for the hinge points that connected me to these aspects of her life — her defence mechanisms, the way she expresses love or anger, things that make her who she is. Once I got that, it made the whole process much easier,” says Pandit who has been training under Goldberg since 2019.

Goldberg’s method of working on his plays usually involves engaging with ideas that matter to him and then working backwards from there. Having known Pandit for a while, he believes that they were in sync about the concept since its inception. “When you work with an actor as closely as Aish and I have worked, you come to appreciate so many things about them like their talent and ability, and you start to see them in different places.” Pandit too extols the collaborative energy of her coach and his sharp eye to notice the everyday realities of people around him. It is perhaps why they agree that someone who comes to listen to Maya’s story will go back feeling a little less alone. 

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