Several children of the city who aspire to join theatre, are being trained by noted theatre personalities at Gandhi Bhavan in a month-long theatre workshop. The participants are rehearsing for for new productions, listed to be staged on Tueaday in the workshop being orgaised by Children’s theatre academy. During the workshop, children are taught the voice modulation, 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 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.
There are different elements which play a vital role in theatre world on of which is stage craft, he added. Stage craft is very important as half of the act becomes understood through the kind of set is 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.