Mahatma Gandhi International School

MGIS Theatre: Individual Student Productions!

The ‘IPP’ (Independent Project Portfolio) is an important component of an IB theatre student’s assessment; in a sense, it is a culminating project that draws on the skills and experience that have been cultivated over a two year course. It requires that students divide themselves into groups, take up different production-related assignments – directing, acting, [...]

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The Land of a Thousand Deaths

On the 18th of this month, students from grade 10 (as well as volunteers from grade 9 and DP2) put up a self-scripted play that dealt with the events of the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. The script was based on the book ‘The Shadow of Imana’ by Veronique Tadjo which the students had studied earlier in [...]

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The sky is partially overcast (DP1 theatre production)

The school’s new DP1 batch of theatre students recently put together their first big production. The result of a workshop with renowned theatre activist, Parnab Mukherjee, “The Sky is partially overcast” is physical theatre piece inspired by Mahatma Gandhi’s book- “Hind Swaraj”.  The students and Mr. Mukherjee have used Gandhi’s writings as a basis, and [...]

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The Hitchhiker Performance

With their latest effort, the current batch of DP2 students pushed the envelope for the school’s theatre productions. This time, not only were the students responsible for every aspect of the play’s performance, but they also decided to tackle the daunting task of writing a script entirely from scratch!  “The Hitchhiker” is the result of [...]

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All the school is a stage: Theatre at MGIS

Here, at MGIS, students performed their adaptation of the Mahabharata within a 2 week rehearsal period. If that wasn’t ambitious enough, a group of them also tackled a piece like Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” in a six week time frame.

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Mahabharata Performance (see slide show inside)

On 24 February 2009, the theatre arts students of Grade 12 (DP2) performed three episodes of the Indian epic ‘Mahabharata‘. Their performance was a part of the curriculum and was well received by the audience. The objective of the play was to understand the characters, the epic and transpose it to contemporary Indian values. Mahabharata Written, produced [...]

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Waiting for Godot Performance (see slideshow inside)

On 27 March 2009, students of Grade 11 presented their interpretation and adaptation of the absurd play- ‘Waiting for Godot’ as an integral part of their curriculum. They put up this show after 6 weeks of intensive hard work and got raving reviews for their sensitive and thoughtful interpretation of the play. The theatre of the [...]

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Theatre Production Hayavadana by DP 2 Students (see Slideshow)

DP 2 students presented their first performance of Hayavadana, a part of their Theatre Arts programme at Mahatma Gandhi International School. The Play Hayavadana is a play written by Girish Karnad, originally in Kannad and later translated in English. The play’s plot comes from Kathasaritsagara, an ancient collection of stories in Sanskrit. Drawing on Thomas Mann’s [...]

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