Mar 20 2025 to Mar 23 2025 9 a.m.

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Price: Rs 12000 Book/Buy

Where

Montfort Spirituality Center

184, Old Madras Road, Binnamangala, Indiranagar, Bengaluru 560038

Event Description

First Drop Theatre brings to you, Yes, And - Core Training in Playback Theatre. This intense, experiential, and creative workshop spans 30 hours (across 4 days) and is based on the syllabus by the Centre for Playback Theatre, USA and comes with a certificate for completion of Level 1.

Dates - March 20, 21, 22, 23 (4-day workshop)
Timing - 9 am to 6 pm (on all 4 days)
Venue - Montfort Spirituality Centre, Bangalore (stay option available at extra cost)

Register here - https://tinyurl.com/3udhm54m
Costing - INR 12,000/-
[Limited scholarships available, contact +91 9886185008]

More about the Workshop:
The workshop equips the participants with the basic skills, values and rituals of Playback Theatre, to experience the various forms and roles within Playback Theatre like those of an actor, musician, and conductor.

About Playback Theatre:
A format of improvisational, interactive theatre where the actors use their awareness, spontaneity, creativity, and skill to present an engaging and dramatized retelling of the participant member's story, on-the-spot!

Who can register?
If you are 16+ and interested in improv, expression, spontaneity, creativity and stage craft, you can be a part of this uniquely designed workshop. Also useful for social workers, community workers, arts educators, drama practitioners, coaches and facilitators. Open to people with disabilities.

About the trainers:
Dr. Radhika Jain - Co-founder and Artistic Director of First Drop Theatre, is an Accredited Playback Theatre Trainer from the Centre for Playback Theatre, USA. She is the co-editor of the International Playback Theatre journal and the Secretary (Executive Committee) at the Centre for Playback Theatre, USA. Radhika teaches courses in Playback Theatre at Azim Premji University and Applied Theatre India Foundation.

Bejoy Balagopal - writer, actor, director, and co-founder of First Drop Theatre. A graduate of the Leadership Program at the Centre for Playback Theatre, USA. Bejoy brings his expertise in Applied Theatre to diverse settings, creating spaces for dialogue and introspection. Bejoy's poetry has been featured twice at the Thousand Poets for Change event.