Thu,21 Dec: You surely missed it… if you weren’t present at the Christ College basketball court when the CSA street theatre team Drishti, in collaboration with a theatre team from Montreal (Canada) enacted a series of plays in front of a huge student audience!
The play which dealt with human rights was enacted in 2 parts:
1. A series of topics which included ‘respect for women’, ‘the need to wear helmets’, ‘smoking’, and ‘alcohol’ through a multi-lingual play by Drishti;
2. The Biblical story of Adam and Eve interpreted in a contemporary context, with a focus on the plight of women, by a combined group of Drishti and the Montreal team. It talked about the pressure mounted upon women in today’s world.
The enactment was true to the street theatre genre and involved a lot of expressing of ideas through body movement. To add to the fun, they used instruments like a flute, harmonica and drums. And guess how many people turned up at the basketball court to watch it?
350 souls! (including teachers and the watchmen)
The aim of the play besides promoting awareness on Human rights, was to provide a platform for a Drishti – Montreal team joint production, as well as performing for the students in college who were on their last working day of the month, before the Christmas vacations! (By the way, the college re-opens on January 2nd). Both the theatre teams have been undergoing a joint training programme in the college for the past 2 weeks which will culminate on the 28th of this month.
To know more about them, check out their blogs:
Drishti : www. streettheatre.blogspot.com
Montreal team: www. rightshere.blogspot.com
CSA Blog 
“the plight of women”??????
that just beat the entire point of the street play didnt it?…i know its just language and i know that the idea behind this particular blog is recording…not addressing issues…but, when you use stereotypical language and you put it down in such a fashion…it becomes just another issue and being a woman i know that its not
just another issue!Could you just be a little bit more considerate the next time ’round?
Hello,
Great initiative to start a CSA Blog…It has helped us to know about the recent programmes.
Please check out for our blogspot..www.peacecorps2006-07.blogspot.com.
With Best Regards,
Geeta & Elizabeth.
Great initiative….
Thank you so much for pointing it out. We will look into our language, the next time around. Here, we were talking about a majority of women who were suffering and therefore the term plight.