Alice in Wonderland @ Rangashankara

Alice in Wonderland @ Rangashankara for 6+ years kids. December 01, 2013

Alice in Wonderland

Bored and exhausted with their routine, fast-paced lives, four people decide to make a short getaway into a world of their own make-belief. Using Lewis Carroll`s novel as a base, the performers transform themselves and the objects around them into a world of pure fantasy and nonsense; to return in the end changed forever by imagination.

This play is an effort to take a flight of imagination, to re-understand lives and surroundings and look at everything anew through the eyes of infinite possibilities. You will be presented with their explorations.

The play is performed using objects. This unique story telling technique is called Object Theatre. It is relatively a new art form was born in Europe with the incoming of the Industrial Revolution and the Consumer age. It juxtaposes live performers with easily identifiable objects from everyday use, thereby creating interesting dynamics in the storytelling. Tram Theatre is India`s First Object Theatre Company.

Ahana n Meera @ Rangashankara

It had been long since Ahana had been taken to any play, so I decided this is the time to get her interest back in Plays. Only challenge was who would manage Om. So we decided we would take Meera(our neighbour) also along and send Ahana & Meera in, while we spent an hour outside keeping Om busy. 

While I assumed that this Play would be for kids, the queue at Rangshankara just told me the opposite. The crowd was mostly a mix of the grey heads & middle aged folks.

This was a one hour show. The faces of these two kids when they walked out of the amphitheater told it all. While initially Ahana had complained about being sent alone inside....we not tagging along...she had definitely had a good time there. 

While the kids were at the Play, we took Om and mummy to the nearby Balaji temple. We had to show Om Narasimha (Narasimba as he calls it). He refused to believe that what we were showing him was Narasimha. We have a Ganesha temple next to our house...and recently they had installed Narasimha there. How could that narasimha come here was Question no.1. Where did Narasimba's teeth go was Question no.2. 

Answer from dad: Both the narasimha's are brothers :-D. And then the story of Narasimha/ hiranyakashyap/ Prahlad followed.

Om with his best friend Radhilka