13 May 2016: Early Years Master Class with Roberto Frabetti

13-15 May 2016: Early Years Master Class with Roberto Frabetti

Details

ASSITEJ India is happy to announce a master class on early years theatre in collaboration with Gillo Theatre Repertory by Roberto Frabetti of La Baracca, Bologna, Italy in Mumbai from 13th May to 15th May 2016.

Telling with Your Eyes
For actors, body and voice are two essential elements. Then, there are our eyes. Our eyes help us see something that is not there, but that has to become visible when, in the theatre, imageries come together. Our eyes create new bridges to cross, help us tell we are open and available, they establish a link, a relationship...a deep and strong one, however fleeting or temporary. Eyes underline things and guide us to see what happens, to recognise and share the details and cores of movement and images. Working on the way we use our eyes is crucial for actors, and vital when we are face to face with an audience of very young children.

A practical Master class on La Baracca’s thirty-year work of research on theatre for early years.

Who can Apply?
Theatre practitioners, teachers and educators, parents and students with background and interest in theatre, education or child development.

Members of ASSITEJ India will be given preference.

Venue: Shishuvan School, 426, Shraddhanand Road, Matunga, Mumbai 400019
Duration: 13th, 14th & 15th May, 2016 from 10 am to 5 pm
Fees: Rs. 3000/- for ASSITEJ members (Max. 2 participants per member group)
Rs. 4500/- for non-members (Max.1 participant per institute/organisation)
The workshop fees include lunch and tea.
Age criteria: 18 years and above
Language of instruction: English
Application deadline: 15th April, 2016 
Application Form: https://goo.gl/2cJeAe

Please note: 
Limited seats.
The master class is not on first-come-first-serve basis. Applications will be reviewed and participation will be confirmed by 25th April, 2016.
Payment to be made after receiving a confirmation from Gillo.

Payment details shall be given over email with confirmation of participation. 

For more details: 
Mallika Sen Verma (Gillo Theatre Repertory) Phone: +91 99206 47476
E-mail: gillo.gilehri@gmail.com

About the Facilitator 
Roberto Frabetti is a pioneer in Early Years Theatre. He is the creative head of La Baracca-Testony Ragazzi in the city of Bologna, Italy. His theatre has created a hub for tiny tots from nursery schools, involving parents, teachers and theatre professionals from all over the world.

About La Baracca
Since 1986/87 season, La Baracca, with the collaboration of the Municipality of Bologna, has been developing the project “Ilteatro e il nido” (Theatre and crèche), a project dedicated to children under 36 months that attend the “Nidid’infanzia”, the public educational institutions for children 0-3. A research that the company kept developing through the years, and that involved and involves artists, pedagogues and teachers. It is from this experience that Small size projects and “Visioni di futuro, visioni di teatro” were born. An experience that allowed La Baracca to produce 37 shows for children between 1 and 3 years, created by following different approaches of mise en scene. The shows created can be really different one from the other: some of them, the ones that are best known abroad, are rich in body images, or focused on the artistic research on theatre and light, while other ones are full of words, surreal and passionate narration, funny and romantic stories.

“Spot”, directed by Roberto Frabetti was featured in Tifli-2015 in Delhi & Hyderabad
For more details about La Baracca, search www.testoniragazzi.it

Gillo's Bangalore tour in July 2015

We are returning to Bangalore this month!

 Hanuman Ki Ramayan
A swang-nautanki in Hindi
Suggested age 8+ / 45 mins performance + 45 min interaction

Based on a story by Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik 
Published by Tulika Books
Nautanki adaptation & music by Pt. Ram Dayal Sharma
Directed by Dr. Devendra Sharma

Valmiki has barely put his pen down after completing his magnificent creation, the epic Ramayan, when he realises he has competition. The sage Narad tells him that there is a better Ramayan, written by Hanuman. Valmiki is devastated! And when Hanuman sees Valmiki so upset, what does he do?

Since 2012 it has been performed in Mumbai, Bhopal, Pune and New Delhi with over 50 shows.

Performers: Hetal Varia Prasad Dagare Ghanshyam Tiwari Vighnesh Sinkar Vinati Makijany Manoj Karki Ravindra Belwanshi Janit Temkar

Shows:

Fri 24th July 4.30pm at Seva Sadan, Malleswaram

Sat 25th July 11.00am at Suchitra Film Society, Banashankari

Sun 26th July 4.00pm at Antara Collective, Harlur, off Sarjapur Road (presented by Antara Collective and Think Arts)

Tickets: http://in.bookmyshow.com/bengaluru/plays/hanuman-ki-ramayan/ET00031865

She-he-shey

Inspired by Rabindranath Tagore's 'Shey' (Multilingual)

A play for all above 12 years

Original Bengali Text Rabindranath Tagore
English Translation Aparna Chaudhari
Adaptation & Direction Shaili Sathyu
Choreography Hamsa Moily
Music Anagh Banerjee & Mithila Lad
Production Design Abir Patwardhan
Light Design Sananda Mukhopadhyay

She-He-Shey is a stage adaptation of Tagore’s book ‘Shey’ (Se), a collection of stories of extraordinary adventures, created for his nine-year old granddaughter Nandini. To keep the tales spinning he employs ‘Shey’, a person constituted entirely of words and rather talented at concocting tales. This stage adaptation is a free flowing response to the stories in the book Shey, set in a collage along with poems and paintings by Tagore.
Originally commissioned by Happenings Kolkata for Rabindra Utsav 2013, this play has also been performed at Santiniketan and at Nandikar's National Theatre Festival.

Cast: Vighnesh Sinkar Prasad Dagare Hetal Varia Vinati Makijany Ghanshyam Tiwari Naman Banthia Jigna Khajuria Amit Bhargava

Show:

Fri 24th July 7.00pm at Seva Sadan, Malleswaram

Tickets: http://in.bookmyshow.com/bengaluru/plays/she-he-shey/ET00031726

Tickets for all shows available at www.bookmyshow.com

Further details at www.gillogilehri.blogspot.com

Contact gillo.gilehri@gmail.com OR +919167000458

Discount available for group bookings of 10 seats and above.

TURN INTERN - a summer internship for young people

After staging plays for children for five years, we decided it was time to get them over to the other side. So we announced a summer internship programme called Turn Intern and offered it to young people who had either been a part of one of our workshops or drama clubs over the past five years.

Two young men joined us at the end of April. Pratik and Samar, both who had been a part of Gillo's Saturday Drama Club.

Group photo from our play GULABO AUR PARIZAAD.

At top left is Pratik and at bottom right is Samar.

Here are excerpts from their reflections.

Samar Jaswal, student in Std.9

"Even after attending two children workshops with Gillo, my heart was still pounding with fear the first time that I arrived at Akshara High School. The ride from my house to the school was filled with anxiety, I was worried thinking what kind of people will there be, how they would treat me. 

Will they be friendly, abusive or authoritative to a new comer? 

As I walked into this huge hall called 'activity room', everyone who was practicing turned towards me and smiled. All the thoughts that I had previously, vanished. A formal introduction made by our director-shaili ma’am eased me a lot and made me feel like I was at home. 

I have since then grown a lot as a person. I learnt how to manage time, how to get the best in a limited amount of money, how to work in a team and how not to waste food. I have had a lot of fun moments and some bad ones too… I really became good friends with nearly everyone and only I know how much we used to crack jokes backstage and in the green room, and Pratik giving me tips and advice on how to do work...

The journey from activity room to the stage of Prithvi theatre was amazing, great  learning, a first positive step towards my goal under able guidance. I wish to continue. Thank you Gillo."

Pratik Shah, student in Std. 11

"When the final bell rings, all the faces are lit up with a bright smile as the recurring thoughts on the land of dreams is finally allowed into the real world. That is how the last day of school before the highly awaited summer break ends. The students minds are all engulfed with plans to make the coming summer most exciting as ever. When most people were considering swimming or tennis as the ultimate "life-sorted" choice, my mind was obstinate enough to allow me do only one thing- Theatre.

So that is how I ended up getting Gillo Summer Internship. Well I was quite skeptical when I first entered . The reason? I had done a documentary the year before and that experience while shooting and dubbing had helped me develop a strong prejudice for people in this industry.

But when the truth unveiled itself, my thoughts were proved wrong as I realized that Gillo lay unaffected by the negative touch of reality. I was given an amazing warm welcome on the first day itself and the next one month seemed full of optimism.

As the days passed, I learnt amazing things and quite fully understood the process of play preparation. I realised that the script of a play has many improvisation sessions before it is finally     ready and our director, Shaili, was kind enough to allow the actors and production members try out their improvisation in various scenes. Another thing that I learned was time management -The sum total of all experiences while planning rehearsals and scheduling transport of props made me realize the true meaning of the proverb "Time is Money".

There were many obstacles in our play, for instance once the tempo was too small to load the props or at times the actors had not learnt their lines, but facing all the technical and other problems without letting pessimism hindering the objective was another thing that I learnt.

Another amazing thing that I learnt was the smart usage of actors to satisfy the script of the play.(Spoiler Alert!) For example in "Taoos Chaman Ki Myna ", Hetal Varia plays the role of the protagonists mother as well the wife of a British Officer (Double Role!!) without even the audience realizing it !!

So in this one month I learnt time management, money saving, account management, play formation process and many other amazing things which can never be taught in school or through books. It only comes through experience.

So in short - It was a summer well spent."

A big thank you to Samar and Pratik for joining us this summer!