Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 26: Sangeet Natak Akademi’s Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Awardee and NSD alumni theatre director and trainer Rabijita Gogoi of Assam featured today at Natrang’s National Theatre Talk Show, ‘Young Voices of Theatre’ wherein she shared his inspirational views with the global audience at Facebook page of Natrang Jammu.
Rabijita is a theatre director, acting and theatre-design teacher working for the last 25 years. She has directed more than 40 plays in various languages like Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, English, Assamese and other North-eastern dialects like Karbi, Bodo and Nagamese of Nagaland.
She is a visiting faculty in many theatre institutes like; National School of Drama, New Delhi, Central University, Hyderabad, Sri Ram Centre, New Delhi, Bhandarker Institute, Karnataka and Bhartendu Natya Academy, UP.
In conversation with Natrang’s senior artist Anil Tickoo, Rabijita narrated her eventful journey of theatre. She discussed several aspects of theatre acting and theatre training and mentioned different methodologies which have been adopted worldwide. She spoke in detail about the vast regime of Natyashastra and asserted that it is good to learn western methodology but Indian philosophy should also be given its due reverence because almost all the elements of theatre which could be imagined are precisely mentioned in our own scriptures.
She believes that we shall develop an indigenous methodology to train Indian actors. For her, there is immense versatility in Indian folk and Classical arts and it needs to be appropriately revisited and believed in possibility rather than limitation. She also opined that to become a good theatre teacher, one has to become a good student forever and should upgrade and update himself/herself consistently.
Theatre director, writer and acting teacher, Ashish Pathak would be featured in this talk show on tomorrow.
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