Report: STREET PLAY WORKSHOP AND TRAINING

Street Play

Background

Street Play is a very effective medium to communicate to our audience about HIV/AIDS.

Since there is drama and real life characters, people tend to identify with the concept that is carried in the plays and hence it is an effective way to impart information about a subject that is frowned upon by the public.

National Workshop

In the year 2010 - 11, NACO conducted National Folk Troupe Workshops in order to streamline the folk performances in the country. The National Workshops were conducted in batches where different states along with their top performing troupes were trained in order to standardize messages across all the states. This TOT (Training of Trainers) Workshop was mainly to ensure that street play artistes and state level employees were thoroughly trained for conducting the training locally in their respective states.

State Level Workshop

The State Level Workshop of Maharashtra was conducted at Lonavla where MSACS and MDACS trained the troupes from across the state.

There were 7 troupes from MDACS, and the troupe representatives were trained on all the themes in the 4-day workshop.

Mumbai Specific Workshop and Audition 

The 7 troupes of Mumbai shared their scripts with the respective troupe members. They were called to MDACS over 2 days for auditions that were conducted with panel members from the field of communication and experts in the program.

The troupes performed all the scripts in 3 locations: Hall 2 of MDACS, entrance area and ground area. 3 separate panels judged and gave them inputs to improve their performance.

On Day 2, the troupes came with the revised performance and put up a performance before 10 panel members.

Every panel member was given an Evaluation Form. They had to give marks for each field marked on the form and each group had to be graded out of fifty marks.

AGENDA

Every group was given a script with a primary and a secondary message and was asked to perform accordingly.

Annual Plan:

Advance planning has been done for one whole year with the names of play troupes, the themes on which they are to perform and the respected areas. This is a total of 800 plays to be performed during one year in Mumbai.

Quarterly Plan

This plan is for the quarter year covering the months of June / July / August 2011 and comprises of 210 plays to be performed in Mumbai during these three months.

June Activity:

This is a comprehensive route plan for the street plays that were performed in June 2011. The image clearly shows the list of areas in which the plays were conducted, the troupes that conducted those plays and also the primary and secondary messages that were imparted while conducting these street shows. All were given specific dates and TI NGOs were allocated the task of ensuring that these shows actually happened. The above list also contains the names of these NGOs that were in charge of specific locations.

Next Step:

The Street Plays will be conducted in phases throughout the year.