Bangalore Little Theatre

2013: HIGHLIGHTS
The bottom line at the top: an extraordinarily productive year!

Performances: Six new productions 1. Finding Ananda: A tribute to Swami Vivekananda in the 150th birth anniversary year, seeking the relevance of is life and work today 2. Robots Unlimited: A Theatre-in-Education production with a student cast in . Wipros Environment Education programme. 3. Beware the Man Eating Chicken: Another Theatre-in-Education production with a BLT cast, but for a student audience 4. Inherit the Wind as a collaborative production with Jagriti 5. Moliere Tonight! From the 2013 Summer Project on Theatre (SPOT), performed at Alliance Francaise, Bangalore and Mysore. 6. The Court Jester: The Tales of Tenali Rama. The annual flagship Childrens Theatre production, also serving as a fundraiser for our charity partner, the Association for the Mentally Challenged.

The History of Ideas programme 1. Repeat performances of The Prophet and the Poet, based on the exchanges between Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore 2. Inherit the Wind, revisiting the evolution-creation debate 3. Finding Ananda as the new production in 2013. Plays in the pipe line, in preparation 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. A new play on Omar Khayam Emils Enemies Revival of Tiger! Tiger! the Tipu Sultan play A new play on Gandhi in S. Africa and the birth birth of Satyagraha A new play on the Nobel physicist CV Raman

Childrens Theatre and Schools programme The annual flagship programme was the super hit Tales of Tenali Rama, also done as a fundraiser for BLTs partner the Association for the Mentally Challenged. The team had the unique experience of opening the play in Ooty! Designed as a mobile production it can be expected to have many more shows in the months ahead.

Plays in the pipe line, in preparation 1. Adaptation of Our Iceberg is Melting perhaps as a musical 2. Adaptation of Ruskin Bond stories Spin-offs from Childrens Theatre programme 1. Production of Robis Garden in London critical acclaim 2. Conversion of classic productions into Storytelling Theatre format for wider dissemination. An arrangement with Club Mahindra to perform in their holiday resorts so far in South India. A theatre gurukul We have concluded an agreement with one of the oldest hotels in Bangalore by which a charming old cottage in the hotel premises will be renovated and turned into a Theatre Gurukul. There are gurukuls for music and dance. Nothing like that exists for theatre. It should be a pathbreaking programme. We will take kids of about 10 years and accompany them till age 16 in theatre appreciation and training. In true gurukul tradition they will get a pretty comprehensive exposure to music, dance, yoga, the plastic arts, crafts (eg. woodwork) and, of course, acting skills as well. Annual thematic festival Pushed to early 2014. A Vaclav Havel festival is scheduled February-March, 2014. Institutional associations

The institutional partnerships continue, with a few important associations added

Wipro Ltd. In the Education programme Himalaya Healthcare in the Childrens Theatre programme Ganjam Ltd. In the History of Ideas programme The Ministry of Culture, Government of India

On another front In 2012-13 BLT returned to high quality services in two related fields - Management development for arts organizations - Theatre-in-Management for corporate bodies

Heres to 2014 !