A performance for Mr. Madhavan Nair

ISRO chief Mr. Madhavan Nair was visiting Christ Junior College on the occassion of the inauguration of the Science Forum on 23rd June. Sibu Vaz directed a 7 minute theatre performance using about 50 students incorporating song, movement and theatre in a very energetic performance.
Using science as the backdrop, the performance was very neat ly [...]

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Theatre for MBA students

We conducted a one-day theatre workshop for 190 MBA students of Christ University for their branch in the Kengeri campus on 13th June. 16 Trainers were involved in the mammoth task of introducing the various groups to the nitty gritties of theatre.
The workshop comprised of theatre exercises to facilitate better bonding, group exercises and art elements. [...]

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Baptizer – A dip into theatre

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, [...]

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A play for Founders Day at Christ University – 3 Jan

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 [...]

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Tattva Theatre Festival

 We were instrumental in sending three theatre teams from Christ University to the Tattva Theatre Festival conducted at Ravindra Kalakshetra on 6 & 7 October. Madcap Productions team won the overall second prize for the play ‘Since the story’, while Last Minute Productions won the Prize for Judges Choice for the play ‘Three Storeys’.
 

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Act Green

Christ University won the Best Street Play at the MS Ramaiah College’s cultural competitions on 24th September. The play titled ‘Act Green’ was an environment play and staged under the able directorship of student director Rewin Wilson. The presentation effectively used chorus work, colourful cloth props and co-ordinated movement to convincingly hold the attention of [...]

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A sweet victory

PointBlank, the production staged by Christ College and directed by student director Adithi Kalkunte were the overall winners at ‘Abhinaya’ the national level theatre festival conducted at Chowdiah Memorial Hall, Bangalore on 8th March.   The play, an original script written by student writer Elsa Mathew won Best Lights (Shivraj & Jason Pulickal), Best Set Designer (Shraddha [...]

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Point Blank

Student director Adithi Kalkunte directed Point Blank, based on an original script prepared by student author Elsa Mathew, this production was staged by the Commerce and Law students of Christ College. The play based on gun culture in campuses got into the final round of Abhinaya – a national level theatre competition. The finals will be [...]

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Her name is Bharati

Rajesh.P.I directed the students of Jyoti Nivas College in Joydeep Bhattacharya’s ”Her name is Bharati”. The script focuses on a traumatic incident involving a woman who is brutally assaulted by a mob, and the impact it has on the lives of a family of four who are onlookers. A very powerful script, the students who were mostly first-timers to the theatre did [...]

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Baptizer – A dip into theatre

Our theatre group, Script Peoples Theatre is currently organizing Christ College’s inter-collegiate theatre festival ‘Baptizer – A dip into theatre‘.  In it’s second edition this year,  Baptizer is an attempt to bring together the elements of a theatre festival and a competition together.
It provides space for college students to express themselves through theatre. The event [...]

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