Date:07/12/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/12/07/stories/2006120720740400.htm

Karnataka - Bangalore

A play just for children

Staff Reporter

NEW VENTURE: Theatre director Vibharavi Deshpande (left), Ranga Shankara director Arundhati Nag and playwright Girish Karnad arriving for the launch of `AHA' in Bangalore on Wednesday. — Photo: Sampath Kumar G.P.

BANGALORE: Ranga Shankara's AHA, a theatre for children, will stage "Gumma Banda Gumma," a children's play, on its premises on December12.

Director of Ranga Shankara Arundhati Nag told presspersons here on Wednesday that the play was its home production directed by Vibharavi Deshpande.

Ranga Shankara will hold five shows in a month reserving four shows for children. With that kind of planning, "Gumma Banda Gumma" would be staged throughout the year. The English version would be presented by June. Britannia Industries had supported the project, she said.