Several children of the city aspiring for theatre activities are being trained at their best skills by noted theatre personalities at Gandhi Bhavan in a month-long theatre workshop. Being organised for the aspiring students by Children’s theatre academy the workshop began on May 1 and would conclude on June 5.
During the workshop, children are taught the voice modulation and also the subject improvisation and management skills as a director.
While talking to The Pioneer, theatre artiste, Vaishali Gupta said, “We are providing training to enhance the theatre talent among the aspiring youngsters to make a career in theatre, acting or production plus to provide them opportunity to display their talent before the people.”
All kinds of theatre forms are being taught to the students to get acquainted with theatre art. He said that the training programme is divided into three sections which include theory, practical and application.
Sharma further said that theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performances of either real or imagined events on stage before the audiences. Here, the performers have to communicate these events through combination of gestures, speech, song, music and dance.
There are different elements which play a vital role in theatre world, one of which is stage craft, he added. Stage craft is very important as half of the act becomes clear through the kind of set being put up.
The students are being trained to improvise the sense of acting, gestures, expressions and emotions. Vaishali Gupta further, said that the students are also taught basic acting exercises to strengthen their acting foundation. This training programme further aims to free students from self consciousness and strengthen their concentration through sensory exercises. Students are given assignments to apply in their theatrical personality and performance.
The students are learning various forms of theatre performances and they would stage it before the Bhopalites on the concluding day of the workshop, further informed Vaishali.