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It is really fun to act, says a ‘book’

BANGALORE: You just thump on the chest and something will go from the back. Wondering what this is. This is how eight-year-old Adarsh Raghuram describes about e-mail. “Pressing ‘enter’ looks like thumping of the chest of a computer. The email goes from the back of computer,” he says wondering about the work that a computer does.

Adarsh has given life to the working of the computer and enacts it along with his 13 classmates in a play, “Travel – Is Everything Travelling”. This is one of the sequences in this 30-minute play on things that move in life. This includes football, water, a book in the library and a child in the mother’s womb.

These 14 children from the 3rd standard of Headstart School staged their play at the Centre for Film and Drama here on Sunday. These children have formed the Headstart Theatre Group and “Travel” was their first performance on stage.

“It is really fun to act in plays,” S.R. Swetha, who played the role of a book in a scene about library.

These children make the audience laugh by giving things that move. The children enact the way the water flows over a person’s body and then joins the sewerage line.

“I have to bear with the bad odour on the body and then enter the sewerage line. Here I have to wash the body of cockroaches too. This is life,” says Arjun Mahadevan, who plays the role of water.

Smita Vij, Headstart School teacher who is also theatre person, said this was a part of an effort to develop creative talent in children. “The children have written the script. I have helped them enact the roles,” she said.

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