'IDEA' is staging a festival of 75 plays on 131st birth anniversary of Munshi Premchand (22nd July to 31st July 2011) and looking out for actors from all age group. Those interested to participate in this festival may immediately contact to series Director and theatre activist Mujeeb Khan on 9821044429, experience not required training will be given.
IDEA has been staging plays on relevant social issues from time to time, mostly topical, relevant to the people in general, affecting their day-to-day activities. IDEA also conducts workshops in schools and colleges.
IDEA was the only theatre group participating in the historical Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi in March 2004, to commemorate the 75 years of the march. During this period IDEA staged plays on women empowerment, anti-gutka and national integration in the remote villages of Gujarat. IDEA performed a play titled ‘Tsunami-the terror’ at various railway stations and around other locales in Mumbai, Thane and had collected Rs. 48,000/- (rupees forty eight thousand only) for the Tsunami victims, Nagapatnam. For information IDEA was the only group in India to have shared the grief and suffering of the Tsunami victims.
IDEA was also part of the peace march from Jodhpur to Manabou (Pakistan border), and participated in the programme held at the Mantralaya (Mumbai) to commemorate 100 years of Satyagraha. Later we had also joined the peace march on October 2nd 2005 to Juhu (Mumbai).IDEA has been organizing inter-collegiate drama competition (The P.L.Deshpande Trophy) for the past six years and inter-school drama competition (The Kaifi Azmi Trophy) for the past 15 years. Both these competitions are absolutely free of cost wherein we do not charge any entry fees from the participating institutions but provide them with Lights, make-up and basic set, free of cost. The objective is just to promote Hindustani Theatre at school and college level. Besides IDEA had staged street plays for the Mumbai traffic police on two occasions viz “NO HONKING PLEASE” during the ‘No Honking Week’ and “TRAFFIC TRAFFIC” for the ‘Road Safety Week’ in 2009. They were asked to repeat their performance on road safety again in 2010 Another feather in the cap of IDEA was street play “NA GHOOS DO, NA GHOOS LO” for anti-corruption bureau, Nasik, beginning from Nasik, Nandurbar, Jalgaon, Malegaon, Dhulia, Ahmednagar, Aurangabad etc convincing people to stop taking or giving bribe. IDEA also performs plays at the Bandra Family Court every month on family issues through which they help in clearing the indifferences in the family and solving family matters.
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