Summertime drama
PRACHI PINGLAY
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Prithvi Theatre has lined up a great deal of fun for the summer.
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Recently, the Prithvi theatre venue, a little complex with 200-seater thrust stage, photo gallery, bookshop, cafe, saw a different kind of activity as talking puppets, science toys, fictional characters from children's literature, potters, artists and craftsmen worked hard to make fun and games and plays for children! "Summertime at Prithvi" began on April 15 and will continue till late June, offering 28 workshops and 75 shows of 18 productions at two different venues — at Prithvi Theatre and Horniman Circle Garden in south Mumbai.
Productions range from theatrical representation of Gotya, a popular character from Marathi children's literature, to a new fictional city boy entering the pristine world of Ruskin Bond. There are plays about environment protection and missing tigers and stubborn, difficult children.
Prithvi's promise of bringing choicest international productions is kept well with the Max Mueller Bhavan's Theatre Handgemge's "King's Journey", the story retold by shadow puppets by the artist Wiebke Steinmetz. It is a story of a king, a lady and a deranged population, watering cans, umbrellas in a surreal and adventurous journey around the semi globe.
A good mix
Workshops, attended by children from six to 16 years of age, tap into several creative possibilities.
"Under The Sea", "The Last Jungle on Earth", "Science Toys", are some of the self explanatory ones. Then there are "Kreega Breega Bundlo" and "Honululu, Honululu" which explore jungle theatrics. "Talk to Them" makes you talk to your favourite fictional characters, and "The Cow Jumped Over The Moon", uses mime, movement and gibberish to "empathise with our diverse surroundings, appreciate and see beyond the obvious".
Says Sanjna Kapoor, "The workshops are booked. We allow each child to participate only in any two of the 28 workshops so that more children can be benefited. But it is such a pity that so many of them cannot be accommodated."
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