Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 8: Forty-days long ‘Natrang’s Summer Theatre Workshop for Children’ was inaugurated here today at Natrang Studio Theatre, Kachi Chawni with the lighting of traditional lamp by Natrang Director Balwant Thakur.
The children Theatre Camp-2015 is special as Devika Ranjan a US citizen with Indian origin would conduct classes in the first week of the workshop. She is a visiting scholar from the United States and is researching Natrang’s use of theatre in community engagement. She has a strong theatrical background in acting at both a community and university level.
Other than this, Children would be exposed to various theatre games and activities which help in grooming their personalities. A full-length play would also be prepared by the participants during this workshop which would be presented before the larger number of audience, who get a chance to watch a wonderful children’s play every year as the outcome of the summer theatre camp.
The training module is designed by Padmashree Balwant Thakur, who has taken the children theatre of Jammu to the entire length and breadth of the Country. His children theatre productions like ‘Mere Hisse Ki Dhoop Kahan Hai’, ‘Aap Hamare Hain Kaun’, ‘Hum Hain Na’, ‘Udaan’ etc are considered to be the landmark children productions.
The skill developing techniques, devised by Sumeet Sharma (Recipient of SNA’s National Award for Theatre Direction) during his consistent and meaningful work with children for over 10 years also prove very successful in imparting the benefits of theatre to the children. The children would get training under the supervision of Neeraj Kant, Asheish Nijhawan (LISPA, London) Aarushi Thakur (Trained in London), and visiting trainers of the allied arts.
The workshop is being coordinated by Mohd Yaseen, Rishab Raina, Mahikshit Singh and Shivam Singh.
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