With an objective of involving youngsters and aspiring students in the theatre activities, Samantar theatre group has organised a two month-long theatre training camp in the city.
A senior theatre artist of the city Mukesh Sharma is commencing the training programme for the aspirants at Mayaram Srijan Bhavan. The training began from August 18.
While talking to ‘The Pioneer’, Mukesh Sharma 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 would be taught to the students to get acquainted with theatre art. He said that the training programme is divided into three sections which included theory, practical and application. Sharma further said that theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performances of may be 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.
He said that the two most important facts of theatres are ‘Angik Abhinay’ i.e. Body language and ‘Vachik Abhinay’ i.e. verbal acting.
The students are being trained to improvise the sense of acting, gestures, expressions and emotions. Sharma further, said that students are being 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. Around 25 students have participated in the workshop. Also it is a production based workshop and a play is being prepared which will be staged to mark the conclusion of the workshop.