The inter-collegiate theatre festival, Baptizer – a dip into theatre, was conducted on 18th January at Christ University. In it’s third year now, this year the festival saw a total of 14 entries in Proscenium Theatre category and Street Theatre.
What was interesting this year was, that probably for the first time in a theatre competition, [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Baptizer – A dip into theatre
Posted in Acting, Bangalore, Baptizer, Christ University, College Theatre, Dharmaram College, India, Script Peoples Theatre, St. Josephs' college of commerce, Theatre-in-Education on January 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Two plays at Kumaran’s
Posted in A.P.J Abdul Kalam, Abdul Kalam, Act in a play, Acting, Bangalore, Creativity, Drama, Education, India, Kumarans, Performing arts, Script Peoples Theatre, Sri Kumaran Childrens Home, The Lorax, Theatre, Theatre Workshop, Theatre-in-Education, childen's workshop, school play on January 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sri Kumaran Children’s Home (CBSE), Bangalore staged ‘The Lorax’ and ‘Wings of Fire’ on 24 Jan as part of their Theatre in Education (TIE) programme. TIE conducted by Rajesh.P.I and Umesh P.N at the school is a one year long theatre training programme that involved students of classes 7, 8 & 9.
At the culmination of [...]
Film studies course for USAC students
Posted in Bangalore, Bollywood Studies, Christ University, Film Appreciation, Film Studies, India, Indian cinema, Script Peoples Theatre, Short film, USAC on January 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We started the new year with a fim studies course titled ‘Bollywood Studies’. This course is being offered for American college students who come under an exchange programme run by the US based University Studies Abroad Consortium (USAC). USAC has about 33 colleges in it’s network.
The course although titled ‘Bollywood’ focuses on Indian cinema as [...]
A play for Founders Day at Christ University – 3 Jan
Posted in Acting, Bangalore, Christ University, Christianity, College Theatre, Creativity, Drama, Fr. Chavara, India, Performing arts, Script Peoples Theatre, Theatre, Theatre-in-Education on January 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We staged a play which highlighted the life of Blessed Chavara the founder of the CMI congregation which runs Christ University amongst a horde of other institutions. The production was directed by Arif Mohammed and featured Pre-University students. Using Tableau, multimedia, song, dance & movement, the participants put up a stunning production that lasted for [...]


