{"id":76,"date":"2009-09-11T10:08:14","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T10:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/0318da2.netsolhost.com\/pwarchive\/?p=76"},"modified":"2018-05-17T14:23:39","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T14:23:39","slug":"the-king-and-the-little-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/0318da2.netsolhost.com\/pwarchive\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"The King and the Little Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The King and the Little Man: the workshop<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/0318da2.netsolhost.com\/pwarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/king.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-218\" title=\"king\" src=\"http:\/\/0318da2.netsolhost.com\/pwarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/king.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/0318da2.netsolhost.com\/pwarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/king.jpg 700w, http:\/\/0318da2.netsolhost.com\/pwarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/king-300x85.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Anubha Fatehpuria started workshopping with a bunch of high school students, adapting K. G. Subramanyan\u2019s children\u2019s story \u2018The King and the Little Man\u2019 for the stage. Eventually, the most enthusiastic youth, a group of five (three from Patha Bhavan School, and two from St. Xavier\u2019s Collegiate School), were part of the intensive workshop that led to the performance at the Kolkata Police Auditorium at Bodyguard Lines, Alipore.<\/p>\n<p>The focus, however, was on the process of putting the play up. The story, originally in English, was translated into Hindi. Scenes were added. Music was introduced. Bits of comic relief were thrown in. The artist\u2019s images were projected on colourful cloth in the backdrop as the young actors performed around it. The language was a challenge for all the participants of the workshop because none of them were Hindi-speaking. But rigorous practice did the trick. Within a week, the youth\u2014complete amateurs so far\u2014were ready to perform the play for an audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The King and the Little Man: the workshop Anubha Fatehpuria started workshopping with a bunch of high school students, adapting K. G. Subramanyan\u2019s children\u2019s story \u2018The King and the Little Man\u2019 for the stage. Eventually, the most enthusiastic youth, a group of five (three from Patha Bhavan School, and two from St. Xavier\u2019s Collegiate School),&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/0318da2.netsolhost.com\/pwarchive\/?p=76\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[54,53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/0318da2.netsolhost.com\/pwarchive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/0318da2.netsolhost.com\/pwarchive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/0318da2.netsolhost.com\/pwarchive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/0318da2.netsolhost.com\/pwarchive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/0318da2.netsolhost.com\/pwarchive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/0318da2.netsolhost.com\/pwarchive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"http:\/\/0318da2.netsolhost.com\/pwarchive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/0318da2.netsolhost.com\/pwarchive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/0318da2.netsolhost.com\/pwarchive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/0318da2.netsolhost.com\/pwarchive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}