Yakshagana - Veera Vrushasena (an episode from Mahabharata - Plays
AHA! International Theatre Festival | 29 Aug 2009

7:30pm
Language: Kannada
Duration: 60 mins
Tickets: Rs.100

FREE Events: 29-Aug 09

6:00 pm: "The Speaker is in the House" -- an interactive play about the Indian Parliament.
We welcome all your children to participate as members of parliament and to simultaneously learn about the workings of parliament.
Tickets : FREE

Pirates Code- Plays
AHA! International Theatre Festival - 30 Aug 2009 | 3:30 pm & 7:30 pm [Two shows]

Age group: 10 years and older

The story begins with an entangled pursuit between the Corsair, the Buccaneer and a woman Pirate. Despite the fact that the three of them are in competition for need of power and ambition, they make a friendship pact to gain some powers, which would not work otherwise. In search of a magical treasure, they embark on an adventure, fraught with danger of wild seas, storms and a ship wreck that throws them into the open sea, where they have to depend on each other to survive.
Language: Kannada
Duration: 60 mins
Ticket Price : 200

FREE Events: 30-Aug 09

2:00pm: Theatre of Food - "Battle between the Lemons and the Milk"
Age group: 3-6 years
Tickets : Registration at RS from Aug 11

6:15pm: Young Musicians: Genuine Fakes
Tickets : FREE

The Great Lalula - Plays
AHA! International Theatre Festival- 1 Sep 2009

10:00am, 5:00pm & 7:00pm [3 shows]
Age group: Strictly 20 months to 3 years [Entry: 1 Adult + 1 Child, 1+1]

Imagine bringing your 20-month young into a theatre only to find a party is being organized – a party for children! And then a lady comes on stage and begins to entertain your children with song and dance, all in a language that only children understand! This would be your experience should you watch “The Great Lalula”. Schnaawl Theatre’s charming production is based on Christian Morgenstern’s 100 year old gibberish poem. Except that it isn’t nonsense to a 2 year old, rather it sounds like the wordplays a 2 year old would make. Thus Lalula is an ode to love, food, music, colours and forms. A mesmerizing world where words skip and dance, move, laugh, jabber, murmur, rustle, rhyme and sing. A world of games between language and silence. Visual artist Jörg Fischer and actor Jule Kracht discover the universe of The Great Lalula. It’s a world that’s always disappearing and being reborn again. Lalula is a celebration of the moment.
Language: Gibberish
Duration: 50 mins

Tickets : Rs. 400 (Ticket includes entry for 1 Adult & 1 Child, 1+1)

FREE Events: 1-Sep-09

6:15pm: Cafe Readings: Theatre Lab
Tickets : FREE

6:30 pm Young Musicians: World Music Centre
Tickets : FREE

THE STONES - Plays
AHA! International Theatre Festival | 2 Sep 2009

Age group: 13 years and older

Youth Theatre doesn’t get a lot better than this award-winning two-hander. Zeal Theatre, Australia brings a tight, action-filled comedy-drama at once appealing and accessible for a teen audience while carrying a message too.
The Stones, is based on a real court case involving two youths whose rock throwing from a freeway overpass resulted in a driver’s death. Played with over physical comedy initially, the characters begin as two unnamed boys, aged 13 and 15, indulging in acts of mild delinquency and buckling under peer group pressure.
The actors fill the stage with movement and sound effects that enchant young audiences. Live music in the form of guitar played by the actors adds to the appeal of the play.

Direction: Stefo Nantsou and Tom Lycos
Language: English
Duration: 60 mins
Ticket Price : Rs.200

FREE Events: 02-Sep-09

6:15pm: Shakespeare: Theatre Lab Children 
Tickets : FREE

6:30pm: Young Musicians: Kumaresh's Carnatic Ensemble
Tickets : FREE

The Garbage Mouse - Plays
AHA! International Theatre Festival- 3 Sep 2009

Age group: Strictly for 4 to 6 years only. Adults allowed to accompany Children.

From the excellent theatre-makers at the renowned Schnawwl Theatre, Mannheim, comes “Garbage Mouse”, a delightful performance designed for the wit and imagination of 3 year olds and above. This play tells of the adventures of a little Mouse (Müllmaus). One day Garbage Mouse finds that she is homeless. Bye, bye to her cosy, old home! With ingenuity and imagination, this smart mouse creates a new life.  All is well until she comes upon a scary and mysterious Picture Book Cat.... what will she do now? How will she face this battle?
In an energetic 50 min performance, a single actor, Jule Kracht, brings the story of Garbage Mouse to life. Garbage Mouse has received much critical appreciation because of the empathy it shows for the minds and hearts of little children.
“Hazy, mazy, dazy – the cat is going crazy!”
Directed by: Ania Michaelis
Language: English
Duration: 50 mins
Tickets : Rs.200 each [Strictly for 4 to 6 years only]

FREE Events: 03-Sep-09

6:15pm: Bangalore School of Music: String Quartet
Tickets : FREE

6:30pm: Storytelling by Geeta Ramanujam
Tickets : FREE

THE STONES - Plays
AHA! International Theatre Festival- 4 Sep 2009

Age group: 13 years and older
Youth Theatre doesn’t get a lot better than this award-winning two-hander. Zeal Theatre, Australia brings a tight, action-filled comedy-drama at once appealing and accessible for a teen audience while carrying a message too.
The Stones, is based on a real court case involving two youths whose rock throwing from a freeway overpass resulted in a driver’s death. Played with over physical comedy initially, the characters begin as two unnamed boys, aged 13 and 15, indulging in acts of mild delinquency and buckling under peer group pressure.
The actors fill the stage with movement and sound effects that enchant young audiences. Live music in the form of guitar played by the actors adds to the appeal of the play.
Direction: Stefo Nantsou and Tom Lycos
Language: English
Duration: 60 mins
Tickets : Rs. 200

FREE Events: 04-Sep-09

10:30am to 4:00pm: Symposium on Theatre Pedagogy for Children, , at Max Muellar Bhavan, Chinmaya Mission Road, Indiranagar, Bangalore. In a unique first, theatre practitioners and pedagogues are coming together on September 4th 2009 to initiate a critical dialogue on Theatre Pedagogy for Children. Local theatre practioners will share experiences with their fellows from Germany – a country that is well known for the inroads it has made in social pedagogy and children’s theatre.
Tickets : FREE

6:15pm: Young Musicians: Ambica & Shiv Sing The Beatles
Tickets : FREE

6:30pm: Storytelling by Kirtana
Tickets : FREE

VERIYATTAM - Plays
AHA! International Theatre Festival- 5 Sep 2009 @ 7:30 PM

Age group: 6 years and older. One adult allowed with each child
The theme of this vigorous play performed by the junior group of students of the Kattaikkuttu Gurukulam is the various aspects that embody veri—“possession” or “madness”. In the play “possession” takes different forms and is expressed as a desire for money, position, power, religious fanaticism at the level of the principal royal characters, and, at the level of the minor characters including the clowns, as a desire for food, drink and sex. Excessive desire destroys critical and sensible thinking and empathy and makes the equal sharing of material goods impossible. It impedes living in harmony with each other and with nature.
Direction: P Rajagopal and Hanne M de Bruin
Language: Tamil
Duration: 120 mins
Tickets: Rs.100 each

FREE Events: 05-Sep-09

6:15pm: Kalidasa
Tickets : FREE

6:30pm: Storytelling by Vasundhara Das
Tickets : FREE

Zapperdockel and the Wock - Plays
AHA! International Theatre Festival- 6 Sep 2009 - 3:30pm & 7:30 pm

Age group: 6 years and older.
Zapperdockel is yellow, tiny, unsure and a crybaby. But that’s the way he is! Wock is blue, fat and grumpy. But that's the way he is! Is there still a chance that both get along with each other? "The Zapperdockel and the Wock" is the touching story of the beginning of a friendship between two creatures that couldn't be more different from each other.
Direction: Paul Schmidt and Wally Schmidt
Language: English
Duration: 45 mins
Tickets: Rs. 100 each

FREE Events: 06-Sep-09

2:00pm: Theatre of Food - "Battle between the Lemons and the Milk". Workshop for 3 to 6 year olds. Registration open at Ranga Shankara from Aug 11, on a first come first served basis.
Tickets : Registration at RangaShankara from Aug 11

6:15pm: Storytelling by Kathalaya
Tickets : FREE

6:40pm: Young Musicians: World Music Centre
Tickets : FREE