Interested in theatre and don’t know where to start? Here’s your opportunity…

“Theatrical”, a two-day theatre workshop for newbies and the slightly more experienced (or the plain curious), will be held in Bangalore this weekend. Aiming to introduce elements of theatre and expand horizons, voices and thoughts, the workshop will cover the following topics:

- The basics of theatre
- What it takes to be a playwright/actor/director /crewmember
- Loosen your body, free your mind
- Speak up
- Onstage vs Backstage
- Laugh, cry, shout, whisper
- Building a scene
- Working with your co-stars
- Bringing the audience into your world

The workshop dates are 22 and 23 Oct, 10.30 am to 5 pm on both days.
The cost is Rs. 800 per head including workshop material and refreshments.
The workshop will be conducted by Aditya Sengupta, a theatre enthusiast, aspiring writer, and open source technology evangelist. Aditya Sengupta has been involved with theatre since he was six when he acted in Luigi Pirendello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author. Since then, he has produced and directed various productions including A Map of the World, Mangalam, Inner Laws, Keats was a Tuber, and Getaway. Currently, he is busy managing a software firm takeoff and editing a book of children’s plays for Penguin. In his free time, he reads, listens to jazz and plays with Dobby, a hyperactive pomeranian.

For further details on venue and registration, please contact:

Aditya Sengupta
aditseng@gmail.com
+91 9880600355

Fire up your creative impulses and get to work on your masterpiece! Start work on that novel or play you’ve always been planning to write. Evoke the poetry within you or pen that short story. Write that play you want to be staged or get cracking on that script for television or celluloid. Join up and let your creative impulses be captured in words…

Still Waters in Association with Centre For Film and Drama announces a Workshop on Creative Writing that spans over 10 Weekends.

Venue: CFD, Sona Towers, Millers Road
Date of Commencement: November 5, 2005.
Contact: 9886071777/51231625

Facilitators
Vijjay Nair is a Bangalore based playwright and novelist. He has a post-graduate diploma in Management from XLRI, Jamshedpur.

Vijjay wrote and staged his first play Scars in my memory in the year 2001. He followed it up with Weeds, Shadows on the wall, The Window, The Gloomy Rabbit, Shut the Door and Raja Lahiri. Drone Quill publishers launched his first collection of plays The Gloomy Rabbit and other plays in the year 2003. Vijjay was the script consultant for Stumble, the film that won the national award for the Best English Language feature film in 2003. In 2004 Vijjay was awarded the British Council-Charles Wallace Fellowship and he was the writer in residence in the University of Kent, Canterbury, for a term. He adapted William Shakespeare’s King Lear and the adaptation directed by Preetam Koilpillai premiered in Bangalore in September 2005.

His first novel The Master of Life Skills is being published by Harper Collins India and is due to be launched shortly. He has just completed his second novel Yellow.

Prakash Belawadi is a senior journalist and theatre veteran based in Bangalore. He has worked for leading publications like The Indian Express, SUNDAY weekly and he was the Chief of News Service of The Asian Age in New Delhi. Currently he is the Editorial Advisor to the weekly Bangalore Bias.

Prakash writes in English as well as Kannada and he has written and directed original plays as well as adaptations in both the languages. His debut film, Stumble, written and directed by him, won the National Award for the best English Language Feature Film in 2003. Prakash has also written and directed many television serials in Kannada. The television serial Garva written and directed by him for ETV was widely hailed as path breaking and proactively changing the idiom of daily television soaps. It went on to garner many awards.

Prakash set up Centre for Film and Drama with fellow media professionals in 2004 as a media training and production academy with its own studio theatre, Nani Arena, for staging plays and screenings; a professional post-production sound and video editing and recording facility; camera, sound and accessories lab; photography studio and art gallery. Prakash is one of the key organisers of Bangalore Habba, an annual festival to celebrate the cultural ethos of Bangalore.