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BAY AREA TAMIL CULTURAL CENTER
and
BHARATHI NATAKA MANRAM
ARE PROUD TO BRING YOU
A DRAMA WORKSHOP by INDIRA PARTHASARATHY
Sangeeth Nataka Academy award winner Indira Parthasarathy will be conducting a weeklong drama workshop in April. It will be once in a lifetime opportunity to learn from an illustrious dramatist of Indira Parthasarathy's magnitude. Besides being a Tamil professor and a dramatist he has won awards for his novels and plays. He was the Founder-Director of the School of Performing Arts, Pondicherry University.

The workshop details are as follows:

Monday, April 03, 2006 at Fremont Library From 5 PM To 9:00 PM

Wednesday, April 05, 2006 at Fremont Library From 5 PM To 9:00 PM

Thursday, April 06, 2006 at Union City Library From 5 PM To 8:00 PM

Friday, April 07, 2006 To be Announced -

Saturday, April 08, 2006 at Union City Library From 10 AM To 2:00 PM

Prof. Parthasarathy intends to offer this workshop using a script-oriented approach with the following broad outline:

1. Introductory lecture followed by play reading.
   
2. Reading a play for your own pleasure, reading it to probe the characters, to contemplate on the plot in relation to the characters etc
   
3. Reviewing and rewriting the scenes from the participants' perspectives
   
4. Organizing the students into small groups to discuss different situations
   
5. Each group bringing its unified outlook on the situation they studied
   
6. Discussion by the whole group.
   
7. Importance of scenery, properties, costumes, blocking etc.
   
8. Converting a shortstory into a play
   
9. Adaptations from English to Tamil
   

We will be making use of his plays 'Aurangzeb' 'Iruthi Attam'.

Registration Fees:

The materials fee for the workshop is $15 per day or $50 for the entire workshop.

Seats are limited. So, please RSVP to reserve your place by April 2nd.

Participants will receive a certificate of completion. We are working with University of California, Berkeley, Tamil Chair to get their endorsement of this program and possibly get a certificate from the university.

For further details about registration, please contact:

Mani M. Manivannan
e-mail: mmanivannan [at] gmail [dot] com
Phone: 510-796-2433