Workout with Shakespeare and Rushdie
NIVEDITA N.
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A workshop that will instill a sense of freedom, belonging and responsibility in you.
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Making moves: At the Theatre Workshop
How about acting in a play? Sounds interesting? And it is not difficult.
The courses from Children’s Theatre Workshop finds children between 6-13 years old totally engrossed in their roles.
The workshop is the brainchild of Vaishali Bisht. It helps children overcome inhibitions and develop their interpersonal skills. Drop in at the amphitheatre at Saptaparni where children are at their creative best.
Ice breakers
In the very first step, the children are asked to make the sounds of things they like. With this breaking the ice activity they work on voice modulation.
The children’s imagination soars with the story development activity, which facilitates the student to make up his/ her own story out of simple objects.
The problem solving forum where the kids enact the hassles which trouble them the most enables them to empathise with people. For starters there is the basic workshop followed by the advanced course.
Going Greek
“I had joined this course after I heard a lot about it from my friends who had done the basic as well as the advanced course” says Daniyah, a Std. VII student of Nasr School.
The curriculum includes Greek tragedy, Sanskrit form, romanticism, absurd form and realism. Complicated? But the children here understand it all. At the end of the advanced level workshop, they choose one form of drama and script a story and perform it.
Getting it right
With Salman Rushdie’s famous novel Marooned and William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream enlisted on their list of plays, the children have their hands full.
“Though it may seem a Herculean task to talk in biblical English the kids manage to pull it off without having somebody back stage to lip sync,” smiles Vaishali.
The workshops instil a sense of freedom, responsibility and belonging among kids and they tend to perform better in any field they choose.
Children’s Theatre Workshop (2341 1862) at Saptaparni, Road No. 8, Banjara Hills
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