Performance at Snehasadana
On 14th March we went to an orphanage called ‘Sneha Sadhana’ on the outskirts of the city. Run by an affable priest Fr. Roy, the children were in the age group of 5 – 12. There were close to thirty children in the dining room which doubled up as our performance space.
The performance lasted all of 40 minutes and what was significant here was that they loved the fluid sculptures. They only wanted that. Their excitement slowly died down once we got into the real life stories. I was the conductor and there was one small boy in their midst called Kiran. He had a ready answer for everything. We were all amazed by his confidence and his earnestness.
They shared everything from their favourite food to their film star to their sport to studies to their dreams. During the enactment I observed that they were wonderstruck at the unfolding magic of playback theatre.
At the end of the performance we joined them for evening snacks. We were all a very happy and tired bunch by the time we left that ‘abode of love’.
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~ by theatrecapital on March 18, 2009.
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Once our playpack company played for a group of children. The wanted all kind of theatreforms, so not only fluid sculptures. But all stories they came up with were all the same!!! Feeling pain after:
Falling down the stairs.
Falling down in the garden.
Falling down on a street.
etcetera.
Well, an hour was too short. All ‘painstories’ the loved it! That’s also Playback theatre.