Anything but child’s play
I hate working with kids. Not because I don’t like children (I actually am quite fond of the little critters), but every time I try to get them to do something formalised, it ends in disaster. For years, I have resisted working with children. But we are all servants to the larger theatre group. So when it was decided that Thespo would create a play for kids with kids, I had no choice but to dive in.
Stage delight: Pedagogy at play
JUGGLING IS sometimes called the art of controlling patterns in time and space. Theatre director Anuradha Kapur practices this magical form of art as she switches between the roles of a trainer, an artist, and an administrator who runs the National School of Drama, the premiere theatre training institute of India. She has played
Moods of nature, a la Wordsworth, Shelley
The artist Paramjit Singh has always been one who studied the country’s unspoiled wilderness with its seemingly limitless potential.
Cultivating theatre’s roots
THERE’S A LOT to be said about the person who doesn’t say it himself. Theatre director Chidambara Rao Jambe blushes everytime his startling contribution to the saga of stage is mentioned.