A month-long theatre workshop is being organised at Shuruat Hall, Professor’s Colony. Students aspiring to learn acting and other forms of the theatre art have participated in the workshop.
It is being organised by a noted theatre group of the city Sambhavana Theatre Group. The workshop began from December 8 and would conclude on December 25.
Notably, the workshop is divided into two sessions. Recently, the first session is going on and the session would begin from January 10 that would continue till February 10. Earlier, a similar training programme was organised in the month of September and October in the current year.
The workshop has it all, from the basics of theatres to the production of the play. It includes theory, practical and application in acting skills. 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.
Notably, workshop is being conducted by a noted theatre artiste of the city Javed Zaidi. While talking about the workshop, Zaidi says, “All kinds of theatre forms are being taught to the students to get acquainted with theatre art. Moreover, 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 further says that the students are being trained to improvise the sense of acting, gestures, expressions and emotions. This training programme further aims to free students from self consciousness and strengthen their concentration through sensory exercises.