Organized by Theatre I-Entertainment Trust and supported by Korean Cultural Centre India, Pitara International TYA Festival 2020 is born from the idea of celebrating its childhood. In its second year, the festival will bring together five professional performances for audiences from Saturday, 19th December to Wednesday, 23rd December 2020, on a digital platform. Pitara will feature national and international performances from India, Ireland and South Korea; across genres of Toddler's theatre, Object theatre, Storytelling and Dance theatre.
With the impact of COVID-19, Theatre I-Entertainment Trust aspires to provide quality theatre for children, in the comfort and safety of their own homes. In this new online avatar, the performances will be premiering on a private channel online and shall give viewers the advantage of watching it anytime for the duration of
Pitara is meant to ignite the moments of exploration and wonder for children and encourage adults to rediscover the child in them and relive the moments which are getting sidelined due to the Pandemic and lockdowns. Pitara does this through digital theatre - a mode of learning by enquiry, experiencing and evidencing without fear of any physical contact with outsiders
Mr. Hwang Il-yong, director of Korean Cultural Centre India says we have decided to support this event for encouraging children to overcome the difficult times, and nourishing them with cultural contents in terms of their hearts and souls. We are cheering and supporting the artists, at the same time not to be discouraged in their journey to nourish children, the future of humanity.
# Attachment 1. About the featured plays
19th December 2020 11:00 AM
Yeh Dunia Rangeen by Theatre I Entertainment Trust
Suitable age group 1+ to 5 years
Non-Verbal
Sky has a colour, Water has colour
Bright sun is filled with colours,
food has colours, fruits has colours
colourful grains filled with colours
Happiness has colour, sadness has colour
all our emotions build with colours
This world is "Full of Colours“
The play is about colors. Through body movements and sounds primary and secondary colors are being played, and lived through characters also. The colors are being displayed on stage in abstract form of movements and concrete form of bringing materials of different textures on stage. A mandala or rangoli is created through out the storyline and the play culminates with inviting children to play with colors.
20th December 2020 11:00 AM
The Bird by Miduelle Theatre SOUTH KOREA
Suitable age group 1+ to 5 years
Non-Verbal
A Crane finds a stray baby bird. They fly around and meet various other birds - Sparrow, Owl, Eagle, Hen etc - while looking for the mother bird. The Crane asks them if they know the mother bird, but nobody has a clue. After sometime, at the change of season, the crane has to go back north but they haven't yet found the mom……
“The Bird” is a non-verbal depiction of this storyline and is told through movements and music. The Laundry hanging on the line becomes a crane. Plastic bag becomes the flock of sparrows. What might become of the towel and socks? The performance is based on the art of Object Theatre, using objects from our daily lives, and the audience will also witness the graceful movements based on traditional Korean dances.
21st December 2020 11:00 AM
The Water Seed by Gillo Repertory Theatre and ThinkArts
Suitable age group 6+
Hindi
When the rains did not come, the young people of the village went in search of water. One of them brought back a water seed!
Adapted from an adivasi story, ‘The Water Seed’ is a performance made with materials and objects. We hope that this adaptation will trigger discussions about water, the global water crisis, water conservation and our relation with water, as individuals as well as a community, country and species.
Originally produced under the ThinkArts Grant for creating digital content for young audiences.
22nd December 2020 11:00 AM
The Magical Journey by Joe Brennan, IRELAND
Suitable age group 6+
English
Magical Journeys
Journey through magical worlds filled with incredible creatures and wonderful characters with renowned storyteller Joe Brennan. Joe will bring these worlds to life by weaving a kaleidoscope tapestry of evocative imagery, charged emotions and perceptive observations.
Joe Brennan is a storyteller, playwright and theatre maker from Wexford, Ireland. He has travelled widely sharing his work over the last twenty years to Russia, Norway, Iceland, USA, through Europe and of course to India. He is the author of Donegal Folk Tales, a collection of folk tales from the North West of Ireland and had 2 stories published in the Irish Anthology of Folk Tales.
23rd December 2020 11:00 AM
The Mermaid & The Goblin
Suitable age group 10+
English
A dystopic world. Plastic pollution has encroached the ocean. Arial, the Little mermaid is now the only hope for the ocean creatures who are enslaved by Ursula - the mop, who is not doing her job of mopping and has now become even more powerful than ever! How does Arial do it? It’s for you to see. Also see the entire ocean re-created in all its glory with ordinary home objects.
The performance combines the magical art forms of Object Puppetry wherein ordinary objects come alive, and Puppet Theatre! The play also includes a very special Object Theatre sequence!
(Object theatre is the unique art-form wherein objects remain what they are to tell a story)
# Attachment 2. About the organizer
Theatre I-Entertainment Trust
Registered as a Trust, Theatre I Entertainment was started in the year 2006 with a motive of providing good quality theatre for young audiences. With this mission in last 14 years the Trust has conducted in-numerous workshops for children of all ages and backgrounds across India and created a large number of quality productions with them. To give children an Idea of professional theatre and to present them with specialised theatre created for them, the Trust has produced many productions for children by professional adults, especially using some fantastic folk stories from across the world. Some of the highly successful productions are - “Bhasmasur-a non verbal musical”; “Three oriental Tales”; “My room My world” and “Yeh Dunia Rangeen”. With the production of “My Room My world” the trust became the first company in North India and second company across India to produce specialised work for toddlers and children in early childhood (1 year to 5 years old). Apart from producing plays, the Trust has also created events and opportunities to showcase these shows to children. We are now taking a big responsibility of hosting our second edition of the PITARA International Theatre Festival for Children.