Updates

October 28, 2012 - CONTROL Z, an original theatre piece by Kuljeet Singh

August 11 and 12, 2012 - PERFORMING SERIES: BADAL SIRCAR - BAAKI ITIHAS & SAARI RAAT

June 1,2 & 3, 2012 - TEEN NATAK: The Zoo STORY, LAUGHTER ON THE 23rd FLOOR & KHUSAR PHUSAR

Atelier Repertory is the most ambitious project of Atelier, which is a set-up of a regular group of actors, musicians, choreographers and directors.

We produce two theatre production annually and stage it in Delhi and NCR.

We have performed our plays at Mumbai, Kanpur, Lucknow and Bengaluru. We look forward to reach out to larger cross section of people across India.

Goodbye Blue Sky (Original script)

It is a play about perpetual hypocrisy.

A simple situation where the players are claiming tall statements about the most humane values. At one point of time, the same performers face the stark reality, to which they all succumb. This is perhaps the turning point, which actually questions the integrity of an individual in general and an artist in particular.

An endeavour to assess the accountability of The Artist.

The repetition intensifies the act, terrorizing not only the actors

but the audience as well, thus forming a vicious circle.

Goodbye Blue Sky is a valediction to blue sky, which is a metaphor of peace. The exploration of theatre in the play is not merely to showcase the economy of expression but to heighten the intensity of the emotions that knock at our numb psyches. The situation is taken from the past and present, which is real as well as imaginary. The intention is not to provoke but stir…about the happenings that hardly make any difference now. Perhaps these brutal acts are happening so often that the mind is immuned to it and thus passive reactions.

Goodbye Blue Sky is an effort to document the tragedy of the race called “Human”.

Directed by Kuljeet Singh

Check the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhafuqaQgXU

For pictures: http://www.atelierexpressions.com/index.php?option=com_exposeprive&Itemid=6

For media reports: http://www.atelierexpressions.com/images/stories/media-print/old-theme-new-treatment.jpg
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Besides, Atelier Theatre has designed and directed more than 2 dozen theatre productions with different colleges and schools. Of late, Jean Anouilh's Antigone and self scripted street play "Aaj Bhi Kal Ke Jaisa Kyun Hai" was directed for Ankur, the theatre group of SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi. Another production "Gopi Gavayya Bagha Bajayya" was designed and performed for St. Marks School, Meera Bagh, which was apart of The Summer Dream Project and more than 35 students paricipated in that.

Jean Anouilh's Antigone

Jean Anouilh’s play Antigone (1942), inspired by the fifth century BC play by Sophocles, is set in France during Nazi occupation, with Antigone representing the French Resistance and Creon, a collaborator of the Vichy regime. A tale of the confrontation between the Individual and the Establishment, the crux of the play is the lengthy exchange between Creon and Antigone concerning the nature of power, fate and choice.

For videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNd2O64EUoU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuX71lti9oA

Directed by Kuljeet Singh

Safdar Hashmi's "Gopi Gavayya Bagha Bajayya"

Recently produced and performed with the students of St Marks School, this production has raised the bars for quite a few schools. Well enacted play with basic costumes and easy flowing design added freshness to the script as well.

At St Marks School, this story of Gopi and Bagha was used as an exercise to understand the process to mount a play with the students. A simple narrative of these two characters - Gopi and Bagha - endeavouring to explore themselves and in the course of time they receive magical powers from the "Bhoot Raja" and help the people to overpower the oppressors who tried to dominate them. Gopi and Bagha are dreamers who dreamt of freedom through music.The boys who were aimless in the beginning proved to be great heroes at the end of the play .

Directed by Nitin Sharma