Chrysallis theatre Co. Presents ” I Believe” - a 60 minute biblical drama directed by Diana Tholoor supporting Kadesh Childrens Home.

Date: May 13, 2006, 6:30 p.m.
Venue: Guru Nanak Bhavan
Tickets are priced at Rs. 100 and Rs. 150.

For booking tickets call Devika at 9880476764
For other details call Diana at 9886112230

The Workshop is specially aimed at youngsters who will be introduced to a new way of approaching theatre and drama. Based on a movement module rather than a text module, it will help youngsters understand the difference between text and performance and the connection between the two. The group will focus on “doing” rather than learning or theory-based drama.

The Weeklong workshop will explore physical theatre and the relevance of language and text.  The exercises and movements are aimed at stimulating the imagination and creativity. Improvisations based on concepts and thoughts and the ability to create from an idea rather than a ready text will form the crux of the Workshop.

The workshop will focus on theatre exercises, movements and games for anyone interested in exploring the field of acting or performance. It will also help in enhancing your everyday life skills (no matter what your vocation) and the capacity to be imaginative and creative.

Workshop Conductor: Sujay Saple from Mumbai
Venue: Alliance Francaise de Bangalore, Vasantnagar.
Age Group:  12 to 18 years
Date: 2nd May to 6th May 2006
Duration: 10 am to 1 pm daily
Fees: Rs 750/- per participant

To Register call 9845209716 or email justtheatre@gmail.com

LIMITED NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS ONLY

Sujay Saple is a theatre practitioner from Mumbai, and has been involved with The Company Theatre for the last four years in various capacities; as actor, as assistant director, as production manager and as project coordinator.  Sujay has also been part of the team that conducts summertime theatre workshops at Prithvi Theatre, Mumbai.

The Workshop is supported by The Alliance Francaise de Bangalore and is part of The Beckett Centenary Celebrations.

Alliance Française de Bangalore, Artistes’ Repertory Theatre (ART) & the Embassy of France in India present FABULATANTRA by Gautam Raja. A collaborative venture on the fables of Jean de La Fontaine and the Panchatantra directed by Arundhati Raja.

Venue: Alliance Française Auditorium
Dates: 27, 28 & 29 April at 7.30 p.m.

Free passes are available at the venue.

Every few days, the auditorium of Alliance Franciase de Bangalore comes alive to the sounds of crabs, coromorants, wolves and thieves. Actors from Bangalore are rehearsing for FabulaTantra, the product of an artistic collaboration between the Alliance Francaise and Artistes’ Repertory Theatre - one of Bangalore’s best-known theatre groups.

This present-day Indo-French collaboration will celebrate a more inadvertant collaboration from antiquity. The fables of Jean de la Fontaine are to France what the Panchatantra is to India. La Fontaine took inspiration from a myriad of sources for his fables, and one of them was Visnu Sharma’s fabled teachings: the stories known as the Panchatantra.

FabulaTantra will celebrate both the exuberant simplicity and cunning slant of the fable in an energetic presentation of dance, music and theatre. It will focus on the French fables that have Indian origins and let us see two sides of a very similar world. It is strange to remember how far apart these worlds were, both geographically and temporally, when one sees how well these stories and their contexts mingle on stage with Darius Sunawalla, Ruchika Chanana, Arati Punwani, Harish Seshadri, Kartik Kumar Maitri Gopalakrishna and Pritham Kumar

Music – Tara Kini Choreographer - Helene Marionneau
Directed by Arundhati Raja

For further information, please contact :

Priyamvada Majumdar
Cultural Coordinator
Alliance Française de Bangalore
Ph: 41231340 / 43 /44

Audition call for a new production Bembidada Bhootha in Kannada:

Please send in the mail to pdschandra@gmail.com ASAP, remember to write in which character you are interested in and please write only “Auditions” in the subject line. Don’t worry about the age you don’t have to be that old, you just have to act the age.

1. Rama Rao (Uncle of Chanchala) Age: 40-60
2. Chandra Shekar (Brother of Chanchala)/CID Officer Sudarshan Age: 30-40
3. Chanchala (Anchor of the play, Modern day girl) Age: 20-30
4. Compounder Narasimha (Works with Dr. Subba Rao) Age: 25 - 35
5. Nurse Nalini (Works with Dr. Subba Rao) Age - 20 - 30 years
6. Dr. Subba Rao (Family physician) Age: 40-60
7. Chandra Mohan (Chanchala’s boyfriend) Age: 20-30
8. Inspector Somasundar (Case officer) Age: 25 - 35
9. Timmappa (Gardner) Age: 40-60
10 Chennamma (Maid) Age: 40-60

The workshop is for a duration of 3 weekends - 6 sessions. It will cover the basics of acting Classes are on Saturday from 4 pm to 7 pm & Sundays from 3 pm to 6 pm to be held at Jaynagar. Hurry since the ceiling limit for the workshop is only 15 participants. The workshop would be handled by graduates of National School of Drama who are highly experienced and in the profession of theatre for more than 25
years.

The course fee will be Rs 1500/- and a registration fee of Rs 150/-. The course will begin on May 20th 2006.

Contact Anuradha e-mail anuhr@vsnl.net or call 9845425477