We just finished partying for 2014 New Year’s Eve, you remember? Fellas we are half way through the year 2014 and your kids are academically a year older at this time of the year. After having dealt with summers and heat, it’s now time to have our encounters with the rains. Although we will be blessed with the season for 3 odd months, the June makes us feel special by orienting it. So enjoy the weekends of June with your kids along with hot tea, pakodas and some interesting plays that will entertain the Mumbaikars on different weekends.
1. HEROSE WEROSE – An aspiring musician who believes in fantasies also believes that superheroes exist to solve all her mysteries. Will he? Or won’t he?…. It’s for you to find out. Will Nini – the aspiring Musician be able to live up to her dream of playing her composed melodies. Solve this mystery in this rib-tickling comedy with your kids.
Date & Time: 11th June 2014 at 12pm.
Venue: Prithvi Theatre Juhu, Mumbai
Author: Rupesh Tillu
Director: Rupesh Tillu
Produced by: Â Theateact
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2.     Wolf: The city kids are headed for a school trip to a tribal village in Madhya Pradesh. The trip gets adventurous as a boy goes missing and the whole bunch of kids is surprised at it. Do the kids hunt for the missing boy? Or they themselves get hunted? Is he taken away by the wolf or the witch doctor Juju is hiding something?  Or is the child affected by some evil spirit. Find out how and where this journey gets its destination.
Date& Time: 12th June at 12pm
Venue: Prithvi Theatre Juhu, Mumbai
Author: Trishla Patel
Director: Trishla Patel
Produced by: T.Pot
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3.     GOODLY’S JHANAK JHAYEIN – This one is the dramatization of “Gopi Gayne Bagh Bayneâ€_x009d_ by none other than Gulzar Saab in Hindustani Language. The play is based on the story written by Upendra Kishore Roychowdary who is from Bangalore. The story is about Gopinath Gayne, who is a son of poor grocer and aspires to be a singer. He is exiled into a forest where he meets Baga who plays drums. The duo sparks on a journey together to a place called Shundi were they get appointed as musicians by a king. From here on they begin their adventurous journey.
Date & Time: 14th June 2014 at 12 pm.
Venue: Prithvi Theatre Juhu, Mumbai.
Author: Gulzar
Director: Salim Arif
Produced by: Gulzar
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4.     CLUE: MURDER AT BODDY MANSION – Suspense and a thriller this play is an interactive one where you as an audience also get to participate in finding out who killed Mr. Boddy? At which place and with what weapon/s? Based on “Clueâ€_x009d_ an internationally famous board game which is now a fun Musical, you are invited to witness the world’s best known suspects live. The plot is followed by a murder at mansion which is occupied by several suspects. The puzzle is solved by a detective and the audience determines the end by drawing the cards and finding out the murder, weapon and the place. Here you get to be the audience and also a part of the play.
Date & Time: 21st June 2014 at 11.00 am.
Venue: Prithvi Theatre, Juhu, Mumbai
Author: Petre DiPitro
Director: Saloni Shukla
Produced by: Verite Theatre
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5.     THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS – The 1908 children’s classic is brought alive on stage. The play is based on a book by Kenneth Grahame speaks of an adventurous journey of five animal characters Rat, Mole, Toad, Otter and Badger. Mole who is good at heart moves to live with Ratty at his home where he becomes friends with Toad, Otter and Badger. The rich Jovial and proud Toad when create havoc with the latest motorcar craze, these animals decide to teach him a lesson. Eventually toad’s home is taken away. The five friends then team up and drive away to claim Toad hall.
With a fine mixture of morality and adventure, the play is relevant in today’s time as it has always been. Experience leisure and wonder in its simplest forms.
Date & Time: 28th June 2014 at 11.00 am.
Venue: Prithvi Theatre Juhu, Mumbai.
Author: Kenneth Grahame
Director: Vikash Khurannaand
Produced by: Stagecraft Theatre
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6.     MAGIC IF! As Jaadu Chal Gaya – Chulbul Pandey, a patrogonist is a 12 year boy. He has gone a little crazy over all the Gadgets, Social Media and the technology around. He thinks he is a genius but is lazy and has gone overconfident off late. Above everything what tops it all is he expects miracles to happen when it comes to studies. He expects a magic wand to solve his problems.
Date & Time: Every Weekend of June at 2.00pm
Venue: Canvas Laugh Factory, Palladium Mall, Mumbai
Author: Om Katare
Director: Om Katare
Produced by: Yatri
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7.     PAPPA…. NO PROBLEM – Citing away the ill effects of coaching classes, this play addresses a cause. With coaching classes becoming a business altogether, it has lost its sheen of imparting quality knowledge to kids. A solution to this comes your way in this play. It shows how parents can set it straight for themselves and the kids. It paves a way for learning about the like, dislikes, abilities, strengths and weaknesses in a different way and improving on them. As Shakespeare once said it “Every child is a genius and it’s the parent’s job to retain that geniusâ€_x009d_.
Date & Time: 7th June 2014 at 12.00pm.
Venue: Jhanki Kutir, Juhu church Road, Mumbai
Author: Hemant Kariya
Director: Manoj Shah
Produced by: Ideas Unlimited
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Aishwarya Suraj
Parul Gupta
Neha Savla
