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“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” – Albert Einstein
Using theatre as an educational tool for academia and community, the teachers training workshop is an ideal platform to assist educators seeking knowledge of theatre elements that could be applied in teaching core subjects using imagination. The training programme is [...]

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Script Peoples Theatre in association with Christ University is conducting a 3-day Certificate course in TIE teacher training at the University on 11, 12 & 13 June. This certificate course is for teachers or trainers. The objective  is to enable teachers to make their classes interesting and to facilitate greater learning by using theatre tools and techniques.
For [...]

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A very famous, senior (and excellent) Bollywood actor recently was heard sharing that one needn’t be a good human being to be a good actor. According to him, acting was just a job and one needed to look at it that way. One’s personal beliefs, values and aspirations needn’t come in the way of the [...]

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Dfrens Consulting partnered with us with the aim of sensitising employees of the BPO arm of Accenture to their work culture. Called ‘culture @ work’, we used an interactive theatre devise, which we had named ‘three chairs’ to fulfill this objective.
The short theatre devise was performed at the workstations of the employees and provided opportunities [...]

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We trained the students of Theology of Dharmaram on a Theatre-in-Education 3-day workshop. Participants were trained in using theatre skills & techniques while training. The workshop was conducted on 22, 23 & 24 October. At the end of the workshop, participants staged three short productions on the lives of eleven Saints. The workshop had a [...]

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We conducted a Teacher training workshop on 30, 31 July & 1 August. The particpants were ten teachers from Start Right Kindergarten in Calicut, a corporate trainer and two theatre enthusiasts from Bangalore. 
Over three days, the participants learnt the theories of Theatre-in-Education and explored practical skills of using the theatre in the classroom or in training modules. The workshop ended with a theatre [...]

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VISION 2020-Alexander, our third theatre production in the VISION 2020 series was staged on 4th July at the Christ College Auditorium. There were three performances on the same day. One for an audience comprising school children, another for college students and the third for the general public. All three performances had a full house.
The play [...]

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Work on our biggest and most spectacular theatre production ‘Vision 2020′ is in progress. The production is slated to be staged on 4th July at 7 p.m. at the Christ College Auditorium. This 2000 seater will be the perfect setting for the 100+ actors extravaganza.
This year the production re-constructs events in the life of Alexander [...]

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On 11 June, a 29 member strong team converged at Shell Technology India Private Ltd. Directed by Arif Mohammed, this group presented a short 15 minute theatre presentation on the topic ’safety’.
The brief from the company to us was to create a short theatre presentation which would have a positive impact on their employees and [...]

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1. Train the trainer Programme
Participant Profile
Designed for outstation participants – teachers, trainers, educators and group leaders.
Course Design/Content

Paper/Concept presentation of participant views, practices, vision of Theatre-in-Education (TIE).
First hand experience of model TIE sessions.
Educational models applicable to TIE.
Preparation of classroom sessions.
 Block teaching using the TIE method.
Theatre presentation with all participants.

 Dates: 15, 16 & 17 November ‘07
Timings: 10:00 a.m. [...]

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