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NDTV reviewed the second episode of Atelier's Youth Theatre Week in November 2008...

Based on Albert Camus's play JUST ASSASINS, "JAAYAZ HATYARE" is performed by Ankur, theatre society of SGTB Khalsa College at Atelier's Youth Theatre Week 2008

Performed at AYTW 2009

ILHAAM

A man... standing on the edge... eager to take that leap... into his childhood. Yet a fear holds him back... the fear of losing his past & present. Because he remembers the boatman who was stoned out of the village for talking to a bird and the beggar whose beautiful songs nobody could hear. Because, at least once, we have all called him mad. That half naked man who shambles down our street, clutching his whole life in a sack and muttering god-knows-what to himself. Because he knows that those who were dancing were thought to be insane by those who couldn't hear the music.

Performed at AYTW 2009

Gulguli Circus

THE PLAY REVOVLES AROUND A MAGICAL BOX WHICH-BLISSFULLY AND MAGICALLY- FULFILLS ALL THE NEEDS OF THOSE WHO SEEK AND ASK.BUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN NEEDS BECOME NEEDLESS, WHEN GREED BECOMES ALL CONSUMING, AND WHEN NO ONE IS WILLING TO SETTEL FOR LESS THAN WHAT THE "OTHER" HAS? THIS BOX, SO SIMPLE AND STRAIGHT FORWARD, THAT HAS SO MUCH TO GIVE TO THE OUTSIDE WORLD, WHAT IS IT THAT IT CONTAINS WITHIN ITSELF? THE PLAY REPRESENTS WHAT CAN BEST BE DESCRIBED AS "THEATRE OF DISCOVERY",WITH NO WORDS SPOKEN,MEANING IS NOT SPELT OUT,BUT NEEDS TO BE DISCOVERED.DURING T HE PERFORMANCE,THE AUDIENCE AND THE ACTORS COME T OGETHER TO HELP EACH OTHER FIND MEANINGS EXPERIENCED ONLY WITH THE BODY,AND COMMUNICATED ONLY THROUGH BODY LANGUAGE.

Performed at AYTW 2009: Romeo Juliet Aur Andhera

Atelier Theatre Society: EUREKA 2010 Ujle Safed Kabootar kuchh nazmein philisteen ke naam

Performed at AYTW 2009 This self-scripted non-linear verse play explores histories and identities of a wide range of characters, both real and surreal, vis-à-vis their hair. At the centre of the schema is the Fount of Hair, an eccentric chorus with a fastidious penchant for name-dropping, dispensing hairy gifts to the hair-deprived, all the while trying to rhyme idiosyncratically. A cluster of stylized dramatic monologues and dances introduce piecemeal criminals, goddesses, foolish bureaucrats, geishas et al, who have somehow been disempowered, and their hair has had a role to play in this.

NDTV Metro Nation's story about ATELIER'S CHAMBER THEATRE. In our perpetual pursuit to take theatre to people who are oblivious of the art form or they have no time and inclination to go to auditoriums, we have devised Chamber Theatre. It's a unique form with performance at its core and the spaces ranging from drawing rooms to verandas to rooftops. Mostly people with theatre sense invite us for the same and also take care of the arrangements including the guests (20-30 people) and snacking for the evening. It's more like Saturday evenings together with a performance, followed by a serious discussion over a cup of tea. It's helping twofold: one, creating audience for existing theatre. Second, it requires only actors with little/minimal props and therefore feasible to have it more frequently. So, one could have it without burning a hole in the pocket. On an experimental basis, we had it for seven fortnights successfully. Our audience during these shows showed keenness to join and act along with further inviting to their venues. The themes are abstract and concrete, both. In future, we are also planning to take it to different cafeterias and unexplored spaces.

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AYTW 2009: DILLI AAJ TAK REPORTS...

Goodbye Blue Sky is a self written 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 stirabout 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.

Script, Design and Direction: Kuljeet Singh & Ravi Shankar

AYTW 2008 Part III Atelier's Youth Theatre Week 2008 was the 2nd episode of AYTWs held at Sriram Centre and University

Inaugural Performance of AYTW 2009 (November 15-21, 2009)

Ambedkar Aur Gandhi Arvind Gaur's 64th endeavour follows its predecessors- a social and political play... political dialogues on the social concerns of the time... antithetical views and the realisation that Gandhi Ambedkar's vision was one, but means different — form the fabric of the play...issue of untouchability and the plight of the Dalits is a significant thread expressed in the play...

Atelier's Youth Theatre Week 2008 was the 2nd episode of AYTWs held at Sriram Centre and University of Delhi. A glimpse...

Festival Director : Kuljeet Singh

Jean Anouilh's ANTIGONE Creon and Antigone in dialogue about FATE, STATE AND INDIVIDUAL.

Performed by Ankur, the theatre group Khalsa College, DU.

Design and Direction- Kuljeet Singh www.atelierexpressions.com

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