Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 9: Natrang’s Summer Theatre Camp- 2019 for children was inaugurated here today with the lighting of ceremonial lamp by Natrang Director, Padamshree Balwant Thakur.
A new full-length play would also be prepared by the participants during this Camp which would be presented before the audience at Abhinav Theatre wherein the gathering will get a chance to watch a wonderful children’s play as the outcome of the Camp.
The training module is designed by Balwant Thakur, who has taken the children theatre of Jammu to the entire length and breadth of the country.
His children theatre productions like ‘Mere Hisse Ki Dhoop Kahan Hai’, ‘Aap Hamare Hain Kaun’ etc are considered to be the landmark children productions of India.
Special training focus of the workshop will be on developing communication skills, public speaking and imbibing of confidence through latest developed techniques of theatre.
The skill developing techniques, devised by Sumeet Sharma during his consistent and meaningful work with children for over 13 years also prove very successful in imparting the benefits of theatre to the children.
The children would get training under the supervision of Neeraj Kant, Anil Tickoo and visiting trainers of the allied arts.
The workshop is being coordinated by Mohd. Yaseen National Fellowship Holder; Gauri Thakur, Meenakshi Bhagat, Vrinda Sharma, Sushant Singh Charak and Gopi Sharma.
The participants who attended the inaugural session included Vrinda Gujral, Medansh Sharma, Atharav Sharma, Trisha Gupta, Asma Gul, Kashvi Malhotra, Mannat Soni, Palshin Dutta, Bharvika Bandral, Aryaman Singh Bandral, Aabhas Upadhyaya, Haleema Fatima, Zainab Kubra, Sanyam Arora, Anah Sharma, Suhani Gupta, Saanchi Dutta, Parth Prabhakar, Simran Nag, Xenia Nagpal, Mannat Sharma, Saanvi Anand, Rudra Kohli, Aviral Kapoor, Srishti Kapoor, Antariksh Nag, Abhinandan Nangla, Adhishwar Gupta, Nisha Koushal, Priyal Gupta, Reet Sethi, Anadya Beri, Gun Sethi, Amulya, Pavitt Singh, Manhar Sharma, Abir Beri, Bhagya Sharma, Nandani Singh, Samaksh Gupta, Adhyayan, Rakshit Sharma, Arav Goel, Raghav Sharma, Mannan Soni, Vaibhav Suri, Saksham Kashyap, Devina Tickoo and Droan Dushyant Kohli.