KATKATHA

Today's the big day - a performance from all three groups; Jan Madhyam, Kutumb and Ummeed; at the R. S. Junior School in Khan Market - so not much time, but here are a few photos from last weekend, when we were lucky enough to be given a workshop from puppetry professionals Katkatha (www.katkatha.org) at their treehouse studio in South Delhi.


We learnt to build and manipulate Bunryaku-style 3-person puppets out of newspaper, and then created 2 giant puppets for today's show, from a mixture of baskets, umbrellas and washing machine tubing.

Asha, Anurupa and Anand show us their full-size Bunryaku puppet.

Our mini newspaper puppets looked more like this, but still managed to be creepily life-like sometimes!










Shopping for fabric for our giant puppets with Anurupa:



The giant bird takes shape:









The Jan Madhyam kids try out the octopus:














And finally, there's always time for a group photo: