I have been working with children and theatre since 1992 and just love it. I also particularly like introducing children to various works of literature and to emphasize the process of theatre which, to me, is oftentimes more significant than the performance itself. Many years ago, while teaching at The Valley School, I directed a night of theatre with scenes from Aristophanes’ “Frogs”, Charles Marowitz’s “A Macbeth” and Nissim Ezekiel’s “Night of a Scorpion”. It struck me then that children take to great texts and profound ideas like fish to water: intuitively and with much delight. So in 2000 I started Theatre Lab, for my then 3 year old daughter Zui and her friends. It was meant to be a year long and somewhat heavy duty theatre workshop for children. Since its inception it has grown and is now divided into a Saturday session for younger children and Trinity Thursday which is for senior Theatre Lab students who are now taking exams in speech and drama.
- Kirtana Kumar
The vision for Theatre Lab...
... is on these lines:
To engage with all aspects of theatre, not just performance
To study lights, sound and other production techniques
To work with text from an early age
To be aware of the multiplicity of theatre forms
To expose ourselves to the experience of theatre through plays and interaction with other theatre professionals
For the group to grow and develop as a community
To engage, through theatre, with social and human issues that are central to the group
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