Last year, when the festival was facing extinction, the community came together to 'save' the festival.Friends of Thespo was born, and in honour of the crowds that supported us, we have dedicated this year to them...therefore it's Thespo 13, Theatre Tera Mera. Do come and check out India's most exciting youth theatre festival. You can reach us at: thespo13@thespo.org

Platforms


13th December, 8pm, Prithvi Foyer.
Us and Them
A 3day workshop culminated into a 20 minute performance, Us and Them is the story of searching for an identity and how much importance we place on geographical and economical circumstance to inform our society and our beliefs about who and what is right and wrong. When Two groups of wanderers, looking for a place in which to settle, arrive simultaneously at a fertile spot. They agree to share, but mark the line between their territories with a wall. Gradually, suspicion and mistrust grow arid explode into conflict as each side wonder what is going on behind the wall
Directed by: David Hirst

14th December, 8pm, Prithvi Foyer
WWW (World Without Women)
The play staged in a street play form, explores the possibility of a day not far in the future of a world without women. Through the metaphor of a womb, the issue of the death of a girl child is explored.
A woman-less world enfolds where abuses have died away, songs lose meaning, iconic movie scenes lose their sting, men who remember women are never the same again, while sonography operators lose their jobs. The endangered women become mere objects of curiosity, 'protected' in zoos before their eventual extinction. In the end, the womb metaphor recurs, to give the message of hope, if the world wakes up today.

15th December, 8pm, Prithvi Foyer
A.T.T.A.C.H.E.D
"A.T.T.A.C.H.E.D", a 10 minute site specific multimedia piece, marries the Arts- music, dance, song, spoken text n theatre in an interesting matrix of experiences. "A.T.T.A.C.H.E.D" explores the basic human tendency to be "attached" to an emotion or desire that drives us, which takes precedence, which never leaves us, manifesting itself in varying life scenarios. The very force that drives us...puts on the brakes...within which we seek our liberation...holds us captive. Contemporary in more ways than one, layered in meaning, "A.T.T.A.C.H.E.D" may just set u free...
Directed by: Shampa Sonthalia

16th December, 8pm, Prithvi Foyer 
Kalakaar Ki Kahani
Kalakaar Ki Kahani  -  a  musical satire  inspired   by Rabindranath  Tagore's short  poem " juta abishkar ", traces  the  plight    of  artists   in  this  “system”.
Directed by: Soumyajit Majumdar

17th December, 6:30pm, NCPA
Us and Them
A 3day workshop culminated into a 20 minute performance, Us and Them is the story of searching for an identity and how much importance we place on geographical and economical circumstance to inform our society and our beliefs about who and what is right and wrong. When Two groups of wanderers, looking for a place in which to settle, arrive simultaneously at a fertile spot. They agree to share, but mark the line between their territories with a wall. Gradually, suspicion and mistrust grow arid explode into conflict as each side wonder what is going on behind the wall
Directed by: David Hirst

18th December, 6:30pm, NCPA

Kalakaar Ki Kahani
Kalakaar Ki Kahani  -  a  musical satire  inspired   by Rabindranath  Tagore's short  poem " juta abishkar ", traces  the  plight    of  artists   in  this  “system”.
Directed by: Soumyajit Majumdar