Yours Truly Theatre, Bangalore
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Yours Truly Theatre Yours Truly Theatre is a registered (Government of Karnataka) Improvizational & Interactive Theatre Group based out of Bangalore, India.
Started in the year 2003 Yours Truly Theatre has evolved a unique theatre language and is at the forefront of movement of Interactive & Improvizational theatre in India, the group was started with a vision to use the power of applied improvizational theatre for change and exploring theatre that is spontaneous, intuitive and beyond script.
With over 300 interactive theatre performances with a team of around 100 members Yours Truly is reaching out to a diverse audiences and venues.
Our experiments in theatre have received overwhelming responses from theatre lovers and critics alike. This Journey has been possible because of our team who have been as passionate as we are.
Our Mantra:Creativity is part of our DNA and is a true mirror of our work.
The Experience:A whole new theatre experience where you as an audience will not just be a mere spectator but will be participating along with us with themes ranging from social issues to those of national importance.
Our productions are high on Entertainment, Aesthetics, and Artistic quotient.
Working towards experimental pieces which are groundbreaking in their originality and styles, not only gives us a high during performance but also during creation.
We believe in taking theatre to the people, right from the auditoriums to offices to campuses to apartment terraces to resorts to old age homes to hospices with an aim to reach out to not only the common man but also to people who don't have opportunity to watch plays.
Current production: Bhagwan Dhundoo: A devised production completely exploratory in nature with multiple short stories on the theme of search with music being a common thread. It explores movement, drama, and soundscapes. The production is an amalgamation of lights, music, and actors. The production traces journey; journey of people in multiple stages of life, of city, plasticity, concreteness, oness, abstraction, and duality of the mind. Music is by Band Aagam (National Award Winners of oohlalala). Backdrop used is a magnificent 40 x 20 feet painting of "City" by Anand Kumar (National Award Winning Painter). Directed by Ranji David and Nandini Rao.
Last Production: Common Man: This comedy is a social satire and is performed in the "Complete-The-Story" style of theatre. It is a tribute to the common man and his dreams, aspirations, conflicts. The play has been performed more than 7 shows in Bangalore and is now traveling outside Bangalore to various cities in India and outside India, after being nominated for the International Theatre Festival 2009.
Bhagwan Dhundoo, Common Man and "Final Touches" were done in "Complete the story" style. Here the audience get to end a "scripted story" together and the actors act it out without any discussion. Final Touches had four plays done in four different languages and travelled across Bangalore and Mysore.
Other Forms and Formats by Yours Truly Theatre includes:
1. Complete the story
This format emerged from our theatre lab. Here a regular scripted story is stopped n the midway and the audiences are asked to suggest an ending, after which the actors enact the ending on the spot, impromptu. CTS was done as a public production in 2006 with 4 different short stories in 4 different languages; English, Hindi, Kannda, and Tamil with a production called Final Touches. The next two productions of YT "Common Man" and "Bhagwan Dhundoo" are also done in this style of theatre
2. Perspective Theatre
This format emerged from our theatre lab. Here a story is taken and redone under each of the characters influence. A simple story is looked from another character's perspective which throws light on that situation and scene and it only tell us how differently we all as humans look at a single incident.
The play CLT+ALT+DEL directed by Nandini was performed with this style of theatre
3. Mushayara Theatre
This format emerged from our theatre lab. Done in an improvizational format where the audiences share a poetry / Shayari written by them and these are then taken by the actors and converted into stories and composition on the spot. The actors speak to each other in poetry /shayari, which is done on the spot as well.
4. Theatre Sports
These are short-forms and games where the audiences suggest situations and characters and the actors enact them impromptu. Widely popular in US. Theatre sports for an audience would be on the same lines as the popular TV Show "whose line is it anyway". Yours Truly members are trained in theatre sports by Adam Dow from Seattle, who has been an improvisor with "Theatre Sports Seattle" for 10 years and 10 years with "Unexpected Productions".
5. Harold
Another treat for an experienced Improv actor, here the audiences suggest a single word, which is then split into multiple words by the actors and then made into a 45 minute play on spot, impromptu. Yours Truly members are trained in Harold by Adam Dow from Seattle.
6. Black Rainbow Project
This format emerged from our theatre lab. Here the actors rehearse blind-folded and perform blind-folded for a blind audience. This arose when YT decided to perform for a series of blind schools across Bangalore.
Started in the year 2003 Yours Truly Theatre has evolved a unique theatre language and is at the forefront of movement of Interactive & Improvizational theatre in India, the group was started with a vision to use the power of applied improvizational theatre for change and exploring theatre that is spontaneous, intuitive and beyond script.
With over 300 interactive theatre performances with a team of around 100 members Yours Truly is reaching out to a diverse audiences and venues.
Our experiments in theatre have received overwhelming responses from theatre lovers and critics alike. This Journey has been possible because of our team who have been as passionate as we are.
Our Mantra:Creativity is part of our DNA and is a true mirror of our work.
The Experience:A whole new theatre experience where you as an audience will not just be a mere spectator but will be participating along with us with themes ranging from social issues to those of national importance.
Our productions are high on Entertainment, Aesthetics, and Artistic quotient.
Working towards experimental pieces which are groundbreaking in their originality and styles, not only gives us a high during performance but also during creation.
We believe in taking theatre to the people, right from the auditoriums to offices to campuses to apartment terraces to resorts to old age homes to hospices with an aim to reach out to not only the common man but also to people who don't have opportunity to watch plays.
Styles
The group specializes in varied styles of theatre including:- Complete the Story Style
- Playback Theatre
- Body Theatre
- Silent Theatre
- ImprovImprovisational theatreImprovisational theatre takes many forms. It is best known as improv or impro, which is often comedic, and sometimes poignant or dramatic. In this popular, often topical art form improvisational actors/improvisers use improvisational acting techniques to perform spontaneously...
- Rough Theatre
- Gripps Theatre
- Forum Theatre
Shows
YT Productions includeCurrent production: Bhagwan Dhundoo: A devised production completely exploratory in nature with multiple short stories on the theme of search with music being a common thread. It explores movement, drama, and soundscapes. The production is an amalgamation of lights, music, and actors. The production traces journey; journey of people in multiple stages of life, of city, plasticity, concreteness, oness, abstraction, and duality of the mind. Music is by Band Aagam (National Award Winners of oohlalala). Backdrop used is a magnificent 40 x 20 feet painting of "City" by Anand Kumar (National Award Winning Painter). Directed by Ranji David and Nandini Rao.
Last Production: Common Man: This comedy is a social satire and is performed in the "Complete-The-Story" style of theatre. It is a tribute to the common man and his dreams, aspirations, conflicts. The play has been performed more than 7 shows in Bangalore and is now traveling outside Bangalore to various cities in India and outside India, after being nominated for the International Theatre Festival 2009.
Bhagwan Dhundoo, Common Man and "Final Touches" were done in "Complete the story" style. Here the audience get to end a "scripted story" together and the actors act it out without any discussion. Final Touches had four plays done in four different languages and travelled across Bangalore and Mysore.
Other Forms and Formats by Yours Truly Theatre includes:
1. Complete the story
This format emerged from our theatre lab. Here a regular scripted story is stopped n the midway and the audiences are asked to suggest an ending, after which the actors enact the ending on the spot, impromptu. CTS was done as a public production in 2006 with 4 different short stories in 4 different languages; English, Hindi, Kannda, and Tamil with a production called Final Touches. The next two productions of YT "Common Man" and "Bhagwan Dhundoo" are also done in this style of theatre
2. Perspective Theatre
This format emerged from our theatre lab. Here a story is taken and redone under each of the characters influence. A simple story is looked from another character's perspective which throws light on that situation and scene and it only tell us how differently we all as humans look at a single incident.
The play CLT+ALT+DEL directed by Nandini was performed with this style of theatre
3. Mushayara Theatre
This format emerged from our theatre lab. Done in an improvizational format where the audiences share a poetry / Shayari written by them and these are then taken by the actors and converted into stories and composition on the spot. The actors speak to each other in poetry /shayari, which is done on the spot as well.
4. Theatre Sports
These are short-forms and games where the audiences suggest situations and characters and the actors enact them impromptu. Widely popular in US. Theatre sports for an audience would be on the same lines as the popular TV Show "whose line is it anyway". Yours Truly members are trained in theatre sports by Adam Dow from Seattle, who has been an improvisor with "Theatre Sports Seattle" for 10 years and 10 years with "Unexpected Productions".
5. Harold
Another treat for an experienced Improv actor, here the audiences suggest a single word, which is then split into multiple words by the actors and then made into a 45 minute play on spot, impromptu. Yours Truly members are trained in Harold by Adam Dow from Seattle.
6. Black Rainbow Project
This format emerged from our theatre lab. Here the actors rehearse blind-folded and perform blind-folded for a blind audience. This arose when YT decided to perform for a series of blind schools across Bangalore.