Now the senior citizens of the city would also be a part of the theatre activities. With an objective of involving youngsters and old people in theatre activities, Samantar theatre group has organised a month-long theatre training camp in the city.
A senior and eminent theatre artist of the city Mukesh Sharma would be commencing the training programme for the aspirants at Mayaram Smriti Bhavan. The training will begin from today that would continue till July 30.
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.” He further informed that this is the 11th training programmeme conducted by him across the nation.
On asking about organising a training programme for the senior citizens, Sharma said, “There might be many people who must have done theatre activities during their college days but now is losing their talent. So to bring back their lost confidence and enhance their old theatre talent we have included a different batch of senior citizens.”
All kinds of theatre forms would be taught to the students to get acquainted with theatre art. He said that the training programmeme 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. Further, theatre criticism would also be included in their training programme.
Besides, lata Singh Munshi, a noted Bharatnatyam dancer would also be invited for a special lecture on Sanskrit Natya Shastra. “This workshop would also tell the students about the similarities in modern and ancient theatre art,” Sharma added.
Students would be 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 will be given assignments to apply in their theatrical personality and performance. Two plays would be prepared during the workshop that would be staged on the concluding day of the workshop.