Platform for Action in Creative Theater

Platform for Action in Creative Theater (PACT) is in Indian theatrical circle involved in Theatrics, Arts, and Cultural Management. It works as a facilitating platform for potential theater actors and directors.

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Activities

Purple Umbrella Theater Festival

Purple Umbrella Theater Festival was conceived by PACT to promote education in the theatrical arts and to create a performing art culture amongst children. Through participation in the Festival, students with interests in acting, directing, and technical theater gain performance and production experience.

Highlights of the event:

  • The largest child theater activity of its kind
  • Spread over a month across various venues in Delhi and NCR
  • Reaches over 500,000 students and over 2000 schools in Delhi and NCR
  • Entirely driven by children
  • Individual as well as group awards and recognition

Festival’s Theme for 2011: Satyameva Jayate (truth will prevail)

Abhivyakti Theater Workshop

Abhivyakti Theater Workshop is specifically designed to help each student focus and develop his or her:

  • Communication Skills
  • Expressions
  • Critical thinking
  • Leadership Skills and Team Spirit
  • Moral and Spiritual values
  • Sensitivity and understanding the feelings of others
  • Fostering peer acceptance and self-worth

Main Stage Productions
  • After Dark, directed by Feisal Alkazi, India Habitat Center, 2007
  • People like us, directed by Feisal Alkazi, India Habitat Center, 2005
  • Genesis Project, an original Performance piece directed by Dr. Sally Harrison Pepper and produced by the department of Theater, Miami University, 2004
  • Chhere (an adaptation of Come back Little Sheeba) directed by Feisal Alkazi, 1998
  • Women directed by Feisal Alkazi, 1998
  • Odhni (a folk play) written by Vijay Dan Deta directed Feisal Alkazi, 1995
  • Teleplay Teen Paise ka Nautanki (an adaptation of Three penny Opera) directed by Amal Allana and produced by Department of Culture, India, 1998
  • Teleserial Aaj ki naari directed by Smita Vats and Produced by India Today
  • Teleserial Tarang directed by Smita Vats and produced by the Department of Broadcasting and Communication, Government of India, 1996
  • Teleplay Like that only directed by Feisal Alkazi and produced by Department of Communication and Broadcasting, Government of India, 1996
  • Chaal, directed by Feisal Alkazi, Epicentre, 2010
  • Keep Tightly Closed in Cool Dark Place, directed by Feisal Alkazi, 2010, Epicentre
  • King of Kahanistan, directed by Feisal Alkazi, 2009, Epicentre
  • Prisoner of Zenda, directed by Feisal Alkazi, 2009, Epicentre
  • After Dark, directed by Feisal Alkazi, 2008, Epicentre
  • People like us, directed by Feisal Alkazi, 2008, Epicentre
  • Tom Sawyer, directed by Feisal Alkazi, 2007, Shri Ram Center
  • Choices, directed by Feisal Alkazi, 2007, India Habitat Centre
  • Treasure Island, directed by Feisal Alkazi, 2006, Shri Ram Center Auditorium
  • Dharamaputra, written by Mahesh Eswancker, directed by Feisal Alkazi, 2001, at India Habitat Center,

Set Design
  • Glass Menagerie, directed by Gouri Nilakantan, 2005, LTG, Mandi House
  • Set design of Seven in All lets Woo Them All (adaptation of Seven Wives for Seven Brothers) directed by Renu Malhotra, 1998, Kamani Auditorium
  • Yeh Jahannum Hai, to be performed at Epicentre, May 2011
  • The Wise and the Foolish Maidens, Queen Mary Auditorium, December 2010
  • Ek Bhayanak Sach, Queen Mary Auditorium, December, 2010
  • Aesop’s Fables, Queen Mary Auditorium, December, 2010
  • Not I, Not I, Never I, Epicentre, July 2010
  • Tales with Tails, Epicentre, March 2010
  • The Girl and the Snake, Lok Kala Manch, December, 2009
  • A Christmas Parcel, Epicentre, October 2009
  • Six Pesos for Sunday, Epicentre, March 2009
  • Pepper the Phantom Monkey, Lok Kala Manch, March, 2008
  • The Stone Soup, Lok Kala Manch, January, 2008
  • The Dragon Kite, Lok Kala Manch, December, 2007
  • Kamala, St Marks School Auditorium, October 2007
  • Tales from India, April, 2007, Sat Paul Mittal Auditorium, Ludhiana
  • The Little Prince, December, 2006, Suncity World School
  • Imaginary Invalid, October 2006, St Marks School Auditorium
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, May 2006, Hill top School Dalhousie
  • Glass Menagerie, 2005, LTG, Mandi House,
  • I, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 2003

Dramaturgy
  • Six characters in search of an Author, Directed by Dr. Ann Elizabeth Armstrong, Miami University, 2003.
  • Little Clay Cart, directed by Dr. Howard Blanning, Miami University, 2003

They are involved in implementing awareness programs for Delhi Metro commuters about etiquette of commuting and about various security issues.

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