A 60-day long theatre workshop is being organised by Vihaan Drama Works wherein young theatre artists are being trained on various aspects of theatre. The young theatre artists will showcase their talent presenting four plays.
The aspirants are learning about the hit plays like Hasya Chudamani, Story of an Untitled Canvas, Totto Chan and Amrita. How the drama is scripted, how the concept is selected, how it has to be presented and what major things have to be kept in mind while presenting a play is being taught to the youngsters.
Besides, the participants of the workshop are learning about the other forms of stage arts like dance and music including the stage craft as well. The workshop majorly focuses on acting techniques, body language, observational skills, voice modulation, diction and speech. This will provide a unique knowledge practice based techniques, which is very important to acquire in this career. All kind of genres like tragedy, comedy, drama is the focus of the workshop.
It is to be noted that the four plays will be performed at the theatre fests to be held in September and October at Bhopal, Kolkata and Uttarakhand. Two plays Story of an Untitled Canvas and Amrita are being directed by Sudeep Sohini while the other two Hasya Chudamani and Totto Chan are directed by Saurabh Anant.
The participants are interacting with the experts and are exploring about the Prop making, make-up, light design, stage set up, costume designing and even more.
The participants are also being trained in theatre music. The participants are told about different instruments used in producing theatre music which they will present in the play.