Punjab Naatshala to train aspiring artistes for free

Tribune News service

Amritsar, August 4

Punjab Naatshala, which provided a platform to many renowned artistes, including Bharti Singh, Kapil Sharma and more — from Amritsar, has announced to impart free training to aspiring actors. Jatinder Brar, owner of Naatshala and noted playwright, said a three-month free training course will be given to aspiring actors from aged 12-16 years. The Naatshala will be recruiting professional theatre artistes as mentors and a batch of 25-30 students will be conducted in one go.

“The pandemic has suspended all theatre activity in city and so, theatre has been hit really hard and so have been the artistes. To encourage and motivate aspiring theatre artistes to take up theatre as a profession, we have decided to impart free training. During the training, children will be made to learn basics of theatre and production to nuances of stage design and other aspects involved in making of a play,” informed Brar.

Meanwhile, Natshala is gearing up to revive live performances as per safety guidelines issued by the government. The admission of the free theatre training programme will be done through auditions, with a panel of theatre artistes as judges. The training programme will commence from August 20 onwards.