Jammu 9th of January, 2023 : Eminent playwright and theatre director Balwant Thakur conducted an exclusive session with children in the ongoing Children’s winter theatre workshop being organized by Natrang Jammu. Natrang since last 31 years organizes exclusive children theatre training programmes in Summers and Winters in order to give them an opportunity to explore their immense hidden abilities. This year the workshop was started on 26th December, 2022 and braving a severe cold over thirty children are exploring new horizons of innovations and creativity under the mentorship of Neeraj Kant, Sunny Mujoo and Gauri Thakur. In this year’s workshop, a play entitled ‘The Wizard of Oz’ is also being produced which is scheduled to be staged at Writer’s Club Auditorium, Abhinav Theatre on 12th of January, 2023 at 4:30 pm. Theatre is one of the most effective mediums of communication and personality transformation both for children and adults.
The training module of Natrang’s Children theatre has been devised by Director Natrang, Balwant Thakur who has taken the children theatre of Jammu to the entire length and breadth of the Country.
He believes that children have immense possibilities and abilities to outshine but at times, these are required to be explored through highly innovative techniques of theatre and Natrang has played a vital role in this subject for Jammu people. As theatre requires a higher degree of confidence, discipline, creativity, spontaneity, team spirit and consistency, those trained in Natrang’s theatre workshops imbibe the above qualities where they get a chance to get trained under the expert supervision of well-trained facilitators. The customized tasks and activities specially devised for children by Sumeet Sharma, who has a considerable experience of working with children and youth, attract the attention of children who get a fertile ground to grow their creativity and soar their imagination effortlessly while performing such tasks.
The children who are undergoing training in this process include Riya Jandial, Vrinda Gujral, Shranaya Mahajan, Haleema Fatima, Zainab Kubra, Sharvil Mahajan, Kavya Jandial, Aadhya Thukral, Araiya Shan, Sheikh Hamid, Tanisha, Jeevansh Sharma, Samrat Sharma, Daivansh Singh, Advik Sharma, Kavya Charak, Divyam Charak, Aarav Vaid, Prial Gupta, Isha Agri, Akshay Sharma, Mehak Chib, Supria Gorka, Kavya Sharma, Noor Abrol, Evana Sawhney, Nitara Sawhney, Mehak Chib, Riya Jandial, Sadhya Sharma, Aadhya Thukral, Kavya Jandial, Gaurangi Sharma, Devangi Sharma, Sharvil Mahajan, Sandeep Agri, Vihaan Pandotra and Arjav Jain.