Chilsag experience.
It is about three months from my last theatre stage experience and the last time was also my first time. I still hadn’t come out of my MISFIT experience that i came across “CHILSAG” got to know from my friend about the auditions happening at ‘rangashankara ‘for two of chilsag’s theatre productions. .
I auditioned and to my surprise and luck i got selected. Though somewhere deep inside i knew i would be picked)
This was going to be my first experience to act with a director completely new to me and the experience of working with a new team had already got me excited. It was 6th of Feb 2010.
I didn’t want to be late for the rehearsals. Loads of things running in my head. How is it going to be? What of i forget the dialogues? What character will i be playing? etc ...etc ...etc...
All of this stopped when i met sachin gupta ( the director with little or not many expressions on this face) This made it difficult for me to read him. He asked us to give in 100% of ourselves in whatever we were going to do that noon.
We were 6 of us 4 girls and 2 boys. Out of them i knew one actor Rency my co actor at misfit.
We got started with some exercises. first of it being that we were animals at zoo. This was tough one for me at least more that it being difficult it was the fact that i was not totally comfortable with the whole scene. I was too conscious of people around me and moreover the fact to become like an animal was not a easy job for me at least..
It soon ended. Then came the exercise that we we had to communicate through singing some tune rhythm except tunes from boll ywood. though this was difficult i loved it.and the moment i started enjoying it. It was getting better. The key here i learnt that start enjoying every ting you do.and ur performance gets better and better..
Next was the we were divided in 2 groups and we had to takeup any song and sing it besura.... ( not in the original tune or rather distorted tune) This was really fun....and i was amazed at our ability and disability to sing songs with distorted tune.. Anju did it the best i felt.. personally.. Amazingly besura
Then came some quick improvisation situations for 2 as a group. This was the one i loved the most. I fact i felt all did really well in this act. I felt all were getting better and better. As the activities progressed.
We also discusses on issues ranging from Telengana to keeping Bangalore clean. And to corruption and the FEAR (that does not exist with us citizens) Fear of our system.
Nice and i realised the importance of social contribution. And remembered Mallika sarabhai ‘s TED talk series in mysore where she speaks of theatre or art form can reach to places where politics cant reach. To convey messages like “safe drinking water techniques” through a street play also issues like family planning and AIDS and other issues can be conveyed through art form and theatre being one of them.
This session gave me food for thought. And i began questioning the purpose of everything that i did. And its relevance to others. (This is a sort of long term learning process i thought) .
After this we also did a live TV reporter enactment and it was interesting to see the varied explanations of people to the same situations. The more clarity you have on what you want to say the better you be able to convey it is what i realised. And its important to add the finer details to your performance (GOD is in details i realised this as an experience)
this day was a day of simple yet important learning as an aspiring theatre actor i am open to learning from anything and everybody that i come across. I would like to quote from a recent SRK meeting students at IIPM Bangalore “Success cannot give you wisdom. It is failure that is an amazing teacher.”
It is about three months from my last theatre stage experience and the last time was also my first time. I still hadn’t come out of my MISFIT experience that i came across “CHILSAG” got to know from my friend about the auditions happening at ‘rangashankara ‘for two of chilsag’s theatre productions. .
I auditioned and to my surprise and luck i got selected. Though somewhere deep inside i knew i would be picked)
This was going to be my first experience to act with a director completely new to me and the experience of working with a new team had already got me excited. It was 6th of Feb 2010.
I didn’t want to be late for the rehearsals. Loads of things running in my head. How is it going to be? What of i forget the dialogues? What character will i be playing? etc ...etc ...etc...
All of this stopped when i met sachin gupta ( the director with little or not many expressions on this face) This made it difficult for me to read him. He asked us to give in 100% of ourselves in whatever we were going to do that noon.
We were 6 of us 4 girls and 2 boys. Out of them i knew one actor Rency my co actor at misfit.
We got started with some exercises. first of it being that we were animals at zoo. This was tough one for me at least more that it being difficult it was the fact that i was not totally comfortable with the whole scene. I was too conscious of people around me and moreover the fact to become like an animal was not a easy job for me at least..
It soon ended. Then came the exercise that we we had to communicate through singing some tune rhythm except tunes from boll ywood. though this was difficult i loved it.and the moment i started enjoying it. It was getting better. The key here i learnt that start enjoying every ting you do.and ur performance gets better and better..
Next was the we were divided in 2 groups and we had to takeup any song and sing it besura.... ( not in the original tune or rather distorted tune) This was really fun....and i was amazed at our ability and disability to sing songs with distorted tune.. Anju did it the best i felt.. personally.. Amazingly besura
Then came some quick improvisation situations for 2 as a group. This was the one i loved the most. I fact i felt all did really well in this act. I felt all were getting better and better. As the activities progressed.
We also discusses on issues ranging from Telengana to keeping Bangalore clean. And to corruption and the FEAR (that does not exist with us citizens) Fear of our system.
Nice and i realised the importance of social contribution. And remembered Mallika sarabhai ‘s TED talk series in mysore where she speaks of theatre or art form can reach to places where politics cant reach. To convey messages like “safe drinking water techniques” through a street play also issues like family planning and AIDS and other issues can be conveyed through art form and theatre being one of them.
This session gave me food for thought. And i began questioning the purpose of everything that i did. And its relevance to others. (This is a sort of long term learning process i thought) .
After this we also did a live TV reporter enactment and it was interesting to see the varied explanations of people to the same situations. The more clarity you have on what you want to say the better you be able to convey it is what i realised. And its important to add the finer details to your performance (GOD is in details i realised this as an experience)
this day was a day of simple yet important learning as an aspiring theatre actor i am open to learning from anything and everybody that i come across. I would like to quote from a recent SRK meeting students at IIPM Bangalore “Success cannot give you wisdom. It is failure that is an amazing teacher.”
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