Note: Cross posted at bhawnatheatre.wordpress.com
Let’s tackle the customary introduction first,
Bhawna is a children’s theatre group in Chennai that works towards creating opportunities for children to interact and have a whole of fun without the dividing lines of “special” vs “mainstream”. We currently have 30 children mostly between the ages of 5-11 years including children with special needs, brought together by a common interest in and love for theatre.
We staged our first production “The Selfish Giant” on the 1st of December at CLRI Auditorium, Chennai. The play was adapted from a fairy tale of the same name by Oscar Wilde.
And now for the real stuff – after 3 weeks of an incredible amount of fun and frolic, loads of screaming, a hundred cups of hot cocoa and a lifetime’s supply of chips and not to forget the 3 hour long daily rehearsals – this is how things turned out.
Let’s just play – don’t worry too much about what your mom will say.
A Game of Hide and Seek – I am not looking, hide fast
Fie Fye Foo Fum – I get the smell of children
Discovered!! Please Mr. Giant, don’t eat me up!!
Get out of my garden – I am big and I’ll eat you teeny weeny weasels up!!
The Spring Dance – I cannot set in The Selfish Giant’s Garden
Summer Dance – Oops, no golden glow of summer for a very very selfish giant
Autumn Dance – I’m passing over this garden too, but better watch out for naughty winter
Winter’s got style – Ice, Frost, Snow and Hail – Let’s teach the giant a good lesson
North Wind joins the Winter Dance – Let’s play havoc
Giant realizes his foolishness – I am sorry
Let’s have a party – Kids bringing the stage down AFTER the finale piece was over!!!
Wow Lakshmi, looks like kids had a blast.
What a lovely production, and the little actors look gorgeous! I wish I was there to see the colorful play in person. Thanks for sharing the pictures, Lakshmi!
Wonderful. It looks like both kids and adults had such a fun time doing the play.
Loved the pictures
Beautiful pictures.My daughter loved
all the fairies in beautiful dresses.
kamala
Anything and everything involving kids is always a blast! and anything which involves a cause as noble as this calls for appreciation.
Awesome photos.. sure kids & the audience had a great time! Congrats to the little stars!
Looks like a great bash for kids.reminds me of my school days .I am now eagerly waiting for my kid to grow up and wish she can participate in such kind of things. May be then,I could be a part of atleast some of those good things happening around.
Madhavi
Beautiful Lakshmi. If you have the video, you can upload it in You Tube for us to see 🙂
Thanks for sharing the wonderful talent of the kids!
Congrats on staging ur first production Lakshmi. The pictures are beautiful and looks like they had a great time.
awesome!!! that was a nice read lakshmi!! it’s so great to see all the kids these days, they are like “born talented”:) man, I think it must be really tough to be parents to such greta kids na?!:D
wow! what a lovely production 🙂
So much fun must have been had by all!
Very nice theme and pictures…great going!!
Great photos! What fun! 🙂
Cool!!
Beautiful!! the li’ll stars are sure having fun too!
Awesome! Awesome! Awesome! Kudos to all the trainers for bringing out the best in these children. And a big applause for people like you who organized it. Nice job guys. The world needs more people like you.
Lovely pictures Lakshmi! I was wondering why you havn’t still posted these pictures…glad you did posted!
My sweet hugs to the children and should really appreciate you all for encouraging them!
the kids look so beautiful!
Very good Lakshmi, if that kids see this photos here, it will make them really feel proud!
kids look adorable lovely pics
Lakshmi – congrats on this beautiful production. The kids look absolutely adorable and seem to be having a ball.
My kids and I enjoyed looking at all these photos. Thank you.