The young aspirants are preparing Shankar Shesh’s play ‘Poster’.
Notably a two month long theatre workshop is being organised at Mayaram Srijan Bhavan where the students are rehearsing for the play Poster. While talking about it director of the play Shalini Gupta said that it is a production based workshop and this play is being prepared which will be staged to mark the conclusion of the workshop.
The play depicts the fight for right by tribals in Madhya Pradesh. The tribals oppose the exploitation of the rights by landlords and Government.The play will be staged on October 12.
A senior theatre artist of the city Mukesh Sharma is commencing the training programme for the aspirants.
While talking to ‘The Pioneer’, Mukesh Sharma said, “The two most important facts of theatres are ‘Angik Abhinay’ i.e. Body language and ‘Vachik Abhinay’ i.e. verbal acting. In this workshop 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.”
As many as 25 students have participated in the workshop. 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.