As a part of the golden jubilee celebrations of the National School of Drama, the Repertory Company of the School presents a play titled
1857, Ek Safarnama.

The play which is of  2 ½   hours duration, has been directed by Ms. Nadira Zaheer Babbar and was staged at the Purana Quila from the 18th to the 25th of April’08 at 7:30 p.m. daily.

Sanskaar Rang Toli
An earlier play of the Toli (TIE CO.) called ‘Hello to Myself’ is being revived under the direction of Ms. Tripurari Sharma, and was staged from the 27th to 31st of March, 2008, at the Sri Ram Center, New Delhi.

Final Year students of the National School of Drama presents their Diploma Production ‘Che - As Reference’ by Kuldeep Kunal, designed and directed by Sneha, on 3rd Feb, 2008 at 6.30pm, at the Abhimanch auditorium, NSD campus.

The performances are scheduled from 28th to 31st Dec, 2007 at 6.30 pm. daily at Abhimanch auditorium, Bahawalpur House, Bhagwan Dass Road, New Delhi.

Seat cards may be collected from the NSD Reception between 11.00 am. to 1.00 pm. and 2.00 pm. to 4.00 pm.

Children below 8 years will not be allowed. Tape recorders, mobiles, cameras, handbags are not allowed in the auditorium.

For more information please contact 23389402, 23387916, Extn.  25.

The NSD Repertory Company staged a play Acharya Tartuf based on Molliere's work Tartuffe from the 14th to the 18th of December 2007 at Sammukh Auditorium in the NSD premises. The play had been written nd directed by Shri Prasanna.

SYNOPSIS
Omnath, a businessman, meets a saint named Tartuffe in Pondichery, gets influenced by him and takes him to his house where chaos erupts. While Omnath and his mother devote themselves to the God-man totally, the rest of the family members go against him. They try to convince Omnath that Tartuffe is an imposter but their efforts are in vain. Tartuffe manipulates Omnath’s weakness as his weapon and uses that to further his desires towards Kamini, Omnath’s wife.

Omnath in the meanwhile starts pressurizing his daughter, Mamta, to marry Tartuffe, even though she is already engaged to Rehan. A victim of his blind faith in Tartuffe, Omnath not only throws his son, Dipanshu, out of his house but also disowns him from his property, resulting in Tartuffe becoming his only legal heir.

Finally Kamini takes charge of the situation. She weaves a plot wherein Tartuffe gets trapped and is caught red-handed by Omnath, who then orders him to get out of his house. However this does not happen and Tartuffe reminds him that legally everything belongs to him. He then sends a summon to Omnath and at the same time incites some Hindu religious groups by accusing Omnath of dishonouring a Hindu saint. The Police arrives and intervenes in the situation and in a dramatic manner Tartuffe’s evil background is revealed by his own disciple, Chunni. The Police then arrest Tartuffe and the whole experience serves as an eye-opener for Omnath.

•A IInd year student of the School has been sent to Poona to attend a Film Appreciation Course at the FTII.

•A IIIrd year student has been sent to Udipi to attend a course there.

•TIE will tour from 10th to 20th December in Kolkata & Shantipur.

•The School closed for the winter vacation from the 1st of December 2007.

Shruti

This month's Shruti program – the monthly literary forum organized at the National School of Drama – will feature renowned poet, Sh. Vimal Kumar, whose well-known work Chor Purana received rave reviews and won tremendous appreciation. During the course of the evening, Sh. Kamlesh will read out some of his poems.

Once the poetry reading is over it will be followed by a performance (around 20 minutes) based on one of his poems presented by Rajesh Singh.

The program will be held at National School of Drama, 1, Bahawalpur House, Bhagwandas Road, New Delhi, on Monday, 30 th of November, 2007, at 5:30 p.m.

All are cordially invited. Please join us for tea and snacks after the program.