A project which provides a space to converge all the potentials of students was the spirit behind theatre club when it is started in 2012.That was an attempt to bring students to more creativity and to more academics.In the present chaos surrounding society, it is essential to keep some tools to navigate life’s tests and help them understand their role in building a new worldcivilisation.In brief it was an attempt to politicise and historicise the students.
The following mini thesis is a project proposal for the formation of a Drama project called Theatre of convergence.Theatre of convergence aims to help students to theinternalizationofmoralsandthroughtherealizationoftheirpolitical and historical identity and their oneness withthe entirehuman race.
There is long history of theatre of social revolution in this area,starting from VT BHATTATHIRIPPADYU it has a long history. College has its own theatre history in 80s related with women’s theatre in Kerala and which is considered as the first initiative in that direction.
Manifestation ofa new phase of theatre in college completely connected with the starting of poetry carnival,a national event which started in 2014.The form, structure and ideological standpoints derived from the structure of poetry carnival. The project aimed to produce dramas from internal resourcesonly. Oneessential precondition was to take minimum hours for rehearsal so that studentswon’t miss their classes.
The project will utilize three mutually reinforcingcomponents.Thefirstcomponentwillbethedramaticcomponent,thesecondcomponent will be a political historical education component and the third component will be areinforcing students component.Many teachers and hundreds of studentsare supposed to run the project.It was decided that anevery year long drama project would be organized with carnival
theatre club will provides apublic forum for group discussions on important and academic issues.Actors preform ashortdrama periodically,.The audience is then invited to discuss what step the actors should take next.Emphasis is placed on achieving a positive intellectual outcome through theatre .
ACTIVITIES.
1.Yearlongdramaprojectwhich has to be performed along with POETRY CARNIVAL.
2.In 2021 a fifty short plays of duration of 20 minutes.One in every t2wo weeks.The members of theatre group will be split into three groups.Each group will be guided by different teachers.Topics could be short stories ,small portions from literature,poetry ,anything.
3. scientific developments their theoretical details and its historical contexts. through theatre.
4.transelations of drama from world literature.
Different projects done
INTERIOR
Interior is an 1895 play by Maurice linch.. The old man and the stranger appear outside the house. The family can be seen within through the windows. The old man and the stranger argue over how to inform the family of the death of one of the daughters. As the crowd approaches with the body, the old man enters the house and can be seen through the windows informing them of their loss.this was prformed for the retirement programme of Dr CHithrabhanu and Dr P geetha in 2015.
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POOTHAPPATTU 2017
A new phase started with poetry carnival.Edassery’s poem was recited and acted.
KERALA SAMARAM KVITHA-2018
Kerala grew up through many human beings and various conflicts. The struggles were against caste, religion and witchcraft. Poetry that grew with struggles and struggles that grew with poetry is the experience of Kerala. ‘Keralam-Samaram-Kavitha’ was a socialization of our ways of walking through great hardship.we recreate ‘villuvandi samaram’, ‘uppu satyagraham’,
‘guruvayur satyagraham’, ‘Emergency piriod’, feminist movement and the latest flood crisis. It was an attempt to remember many of the leaders and……… of history and their era like, Poykayil Appachan, Sreenarayanaguru, Ayyankali, Sahodaran Ayyappan, Amshi NarayanaPilla, AKG, EMS, Cherukad, Varegees and Subrahmanya Das, and Madhu ( tribal youth killed by mob violence).
ORE BHOOMI,ORE NIZHAL 2019
An experimental attempt –two stages,two landscapes of events which merges in history.On one stage events of a contemprary revolutionary life and on the second stage Ann Franks story.
BHOOPADANGAL 2020
The drama constituted events from four malayalam novels,C V RAMAN PILLAI’S RAMARAJA BAHADUR,VAIKKAM MUHAMMED BASHEER’S PATHUMMAYUDE AADU,THAKAXZHI’S CHEMMEEN and OV VIJAYAN’S PRAVACHAKANTE VAZHIKAL.All these stories connected by some theatre groups.
TRANSELATION
In 2021, covid period members of the theatre group translated Chekov’s drama seagull to Malayalam first time. It was a wonderful effort from students of theatre club and which is yet to be published.