New Delhi: Mothers armed with registration forms and tokens, and kids with water bottles and chips line up for children’s summer programme registrations in Mumbai on Friday.
As the registrations for the Summertime at Mumbai’s Pritvhi Theatre opened on April 6, parents began queuing up outside the venue from as early as 3 am.
In its 17th year, Summertime at Prithvi offers 28 workshops and 75 shows of 18 productions spread over almost two months.
The programme, a popular vacation activity, has workshops conducted by theatre practitioners, artists, teachers, writers and poets. In fact it even boasts of a scientist on the panel-Arvind Gupta-who makes scientific toys out of everyday junk.
Moreover, being part of the programme assures the participant gets to watch any children’s play organised by Pritvhi free of charge for an entire year.
One of the oldest experimental theatres in Mumbai, it is run by Shashi Kapoor’s daughter Sanjana Kapoor.
With Summertime, Sanjana hopes to ‘make Pritvhi a second home to Mumbai’s young people.’
“It isn’t just about keeping a child busy during the vacations, as much as it is about inculcating discipline. These workshops do just that. Besides, they are very creative and he’s opened up quite a lot after attending them,” says a parent who has been sending her son for this programme for six years now.
The young fellow, Sparsh Rajghariya, of course is more than happy to make new friends and watch plays all through the year.
The enthusiasm of the participants and indeed that of the parents seemed contagious. The Theatre too, for its part, tried to make sure that everything went without a hitch as far as possible.
With lemonade on the house and excerpts from plays being performed, it surely didn’t look like the parents were complaining either.
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