Musical theatre is an age old thing and people are now exploring it, calling the new form. Actually, it is like old wine in a new model,” shares theatre playwright Suresh Wankhede. The theatre aspirants of the city are learning about musical theatre in a month-long theatre workshop.
The workshop is being organised by playwright Suresh Wankhede at Mayaram Srijan Bhavan. All aspects of theatre form is being taught in a theatre workshop right from backstage to theatre art. It is being organised for the youngsters to learn the basics and necessary tips of theatre art. Suresh is giving a proper training to the participants.
Here on Tuesday, the participants were taught about the movements, according to the musical rhythms and alaps.
All through the workshop ,the participants will be taught the make-up techniques, how to use the props and properties, speech therapy, improvisation of stories, body movements, facial expression with dialogue, footwork on music along with other experimental exercises are being taught by noted theatre personalities of the city.
The workshop will focus on Acting techniques, Body language, Observational kills, 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 would be taught in this workshop.
This workshop will be very different from others. In this workshop participants could learn the musical theatre form which is one of the oldest theatre forms.