Character aplenty: Puppet uncover plays with children’s heart strings
Actors perform during a uncover organized underneath a new beginning for children. PHOTO: EXPRESS
LAHORE: A three-day puppet party uncover called Khawabnamma resolved during Alhamra Art Centre on Thursday and kept a children in assemblage entertained.
The party uncover for children was organized by Azad Theatre as a partial of a new beginning called “Azad Children Puppet Theatre’.
Directed and created by Malik Aslam, a prolongation group used fibre puppets, rode puppets, glove puppets and muppets to benefaction a 45-minute party uncover for children.
Aslam, who is also a executive executive of Azad Theatre Company, told The Express Tribune that even yet his group constructed shows compelling amicable change for a final 5 years, he realised there was small or no party productions for children. He felt there was a need to furnish plays for them.
“Another design was to come adult with something in a mom denunciation given a cartoons kids see on radio are possibly in English or dubbed in Hindi,” Aslam said.
According to him, a uncover is generally party formed and does not follow a sold theme. However, a characters do broach dialogues with elementary messages like honour your elders and keep your sourroundings clean.
He pronounced that a non-ticketed play was generally reason to support to a children of supervision schools.
Aslam pronounced a prolongation is singular and initial as a puppet characters are not typically cramped to a box with strings.
“We motionless to do it a way, so a uncover finished adult being a reduction of everything, generally a actors dressed in costumes behaving out like they customarily do for any other unchanging play”. However, Aslam and his seven-member group had to leave their comfort zones for Khawbnama.
“For dual months, all a members learnt how to make opposite puppets from workd eminent puppeteer Islam khan,” he added.
He pronounced a Azad Children and Theatre Company skeleton to reason puppet creation workshops in a destiny and organize shows for impecunious children, generally during supervision schools.
Published in The Express Tribune, Jan 28th, 2017.
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