"We have more choices now and the audience's attention span has reduced. People have become more snappy these days. Earlier, people didn't have much choice. Now you don't ask for just a cup of coffee at a coffee shop, you want cappuccino. Similarly theatre has now many versions as competitors.
"But it was evolving. Good theatre will always stand out and attract audiences," Agashe, who also acted in numerous films like 'Paar', 'Gandhi' and 'Apaharan', told PTI here.
"There lies the challenge to tailor the plays to suit contemporary taste and style. And there lies the competitive spirit which makes us work harder to attract more eyeballs in comparison with other forms of art," Agashe, who was in town for stage show of Lillete Dubey-directed 'Adhe Adhure' in Vodafone Odeon theatre festival said.
The thespian, who portrayed the character of Nana Phadnavis in Vijay Tendulkar's magnum opus 'Ghasiram Kotwal', said, "I remember how the audience sat through when we staged the Marathi play 'Ghasiram Kotwal' during the '80s in Kolkata and there was a long applause afterwards."
Finding a lot of similarities between Marathi and Bengali stage plays, in terms of cerebral quotient and the passion of the actors and the audience, he said, "good theatre survives and sustains with an involved audience." MORE
