Weekend Theatre Course: This four-month certificate program ends with a theatrical production. On Saturdays and Sundays, from 09:00 to 12:00 or 12:30 to 03:30 PM (3-hour slot per class / 2 days a week), classes will take place. Please be aware that, in order to be eligible for the certificate, one must have participated in the stage performance and attended for all 4 months with a minimum of 75% attendance.

• Class Curriculum -
  1) Basics of acting
  2) Voice and Speech training
  3) Body Language
  4) Storytelling & Narration while performing 
  5) Basic craft of Street Plays
  6) Theatrical Games
  7) Indian and world drama introduction
  8) Introduction to literary works of contemporary playwrights of India
  9) Scene work
  10) Classroom performance.
  11) Stage Drama: Text to performance
  12) Improvisation practice
  13) Characterisation

Faculty -

Arvind Gaur, an Indian theatre director, is known for his work in socially and politically relevant theatre. Arvind Gaur’s plays are contemporary. Wider socio-political issues – communalism, casteism, feudalism, domestic violence, crimes of the state, power politics, violence, injustice, social-discrimination, gender and racism are major themes of his theatre.

Gaur is an actor trainer, social worker and a good storyteller. He has also performed hundreds of street plays for people struggling for many social movements. Arvind Gaur was also awarded a Junior Research Fellowship by the Ministry of Human Resource Development in 1997-98. He was also a visiting faculty member at Delhi University for the Theatre in Education program for three years.

Arvind Gaur has participated in major theatre festivals of India and abroad. He has also performed plays in many cities of America, including Chicago, Boston, Washington, Harvard University, Houston, Los Angeles, Smithsonian Museum, Australia, Europe, Russia, United Arab Emirates, Armenia, France and Edinburgh Festival.

He has organized drama workshops in various colleges, institutes, schools, and universities. He also organizes drama workshops for children. Arvind has directed hundreds of street plays as well as more than a hundred stage plays on various social and political issues in three decades.

Arvind Gaur also designed the backstage and lighting system for the major plays of Padmashree Habib Tanveer’s Naya Theatre, Agra Bazaar, and Charandas Chor.

Nowadays, Arvind Gaur is working as the director of Asmita Theatre Group. Prominent among his students are Kangana Ranaut, Deepak Dobriyal, Aishwarya Nidhi, Tilottama Shome, Manu Rishi Chadda, Bajrangbali Singh, Seema Azmi, Ishwak Singh, Sushan Brar, Shakti Anand etc.

Leading actors Mallika Sarabhai, Piyush Mishra, Sonam Kapoor, Lushin Dubey, Ruth Sheard (British actress), and Babbles Sabarwal have also worked with him.

He also worked as a culture columnist in Navbharat Times newspaper for about four years and as a freelance journalist in national newspapers like Jansata and Hindustan. Gaur worked at the Press Trust of India (PTI-TV) for two years.

‘Nukkad Par Dastak’, published by Vani Prakashan, is his famous book. Four editions of this book, written by Arvind Gaur, have been published.