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BAL NATYA UTSAV : : (Children Theatre Festival)
(A Process Report) : : by Darshana Dube

IMPACT ON MEDIA

Most of the regional and English dailies reported about BNU and other new experiments carried out by the ETF. Following are some excerpts:

-Drama takes wings with street children
-Nukkad Nataks- creating awareness on common man’s woes --Indian Express

-The din of cars hooting along the seaside at Charni road was drowned by chirpy voices and giggles of little children who thronged the BAL Bhavan last weekend.
-Foreign returned slum kids have dreams to fulfill.-- Bombay Times

In the early hours of January19, the Prithvi theatre in Juhu was packed to capacity. Eager audiences had come to watch Hello Zindagi a play scripted directed and performed by over 300 street children. Westside Plus, --The Times of India

Prithvi theatre wore a child like look last morning. The hall reverberated with coos, caws and quacks. Children dressed as pigeons, cuckoos, sparrows, eagles peacocks and ducks were part of a play that highlighted issues of environmental pollution and man's contribution to it. --Mid Day

-Kandivali children work to play in new labor acts
-Taking education to the final frontiers---- Asian Age

With the performance of these plays, which had one or the other message for all strata of society, the audience could not help but carry some of the warm feeling evoked by the very special performances.-- The Press Journal

Perhaps all of them would bring in a new dawn in the world of issue-based theatre.
The Theatre of revolt-- The Free Press Journal

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