![]() She has designed puppet exhibitions for Serendipity Arts Festival, The National Museum in Delhi, the Children’s Musuem at Prince of Wales Museum(CSMVS) Mumbai and the Goethe Institutes Infinite Library Project. She works as a consultant in arts for public health, peace-building and education projects for communities, schools, juvenile homes, in conflict zones like Kashmir, Sri Lanka and Manipur. She has been a researcher in residence at the Deutsches forum fur figurentheater, in Germany. She has been a Pro Helvetia, artist-in-residence at Rote Fabrik, Zurich and at World Arts and Cultures, UCLA. She is a recipient of the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar in Puppetry, a National Award in Puppet Theater in 2006 and a CLORE Chevening Fellowship in 2021-22. She has a diploma in puppet theater from Dramatiska Institutet,DI, University of Stockholm, Sweden and has trained at the Scoula De La Guaratelle under Bruno Leone. ![]() She is the Co-Founder and Managing Trustee of Katkatha Puppet Arts Trust since 1998. Katkatha is committed to training the next generation of puppeteers and creating a new space to seedbed new puppet groups and companies by holding annual master-classes, mentorship projects, internships and residencies.Īnurupa Roy is a puppeteer, puppet designer and a director of puppet theatre. The repertoire includes over twenty five original performances. This includes the creation of original productions using puppets, masks and objects and touring to international and Indian performing arts and theatre festivals. At the core of the group are sculptors, dancers, writers, designers and puppeteers whose vision is to support a professionally set up and managed space for the promotion, preservation and development of Puppet Theater and allied arts. Katkatha started as an association of like-minded puppeteers in 1998 and was registered as a trust. Fabric and styrofoam figures, papier mache sculptures, Shakespearean comedies and Indian epics, the stories from conflict zones and the worlds of little children are all a part of Katkatha’s work where puppets are not dolls with strings but the theater of inanimate material. ![]() Face coverings are also required for all audience members.Katkatha is an amalgam of two Hindi words, Kat meaning wood and is derived from the word Katputli (puppetry) and Katha meaning story, together becoming puppets and stories. ![]() ![]() Audiences sit under the tent in small, distanced "pods" consisting of two to four people, and performances only run for about an hour. "The Threepenny Opera" first opened in 1928 and features such memorable songs as "The Ballad of Mack the Knife" and "Pirate Jenny." In this production, puppets designed by Jason Hines of Atlanta’s Center for Puppetry Arts embody the "chorus of beggars" - a creative way to limit the number of human performers together on stage - and headline a trio of short films during the performance. Following its innovative production of "Pagliacci" - performed under a massive circus tent and utilizing both live performers and puppets created by Atlanta’s Center for Puppetry Arts - Atlanta Opera is now presenting a new adaptation of the Kurt Weill-Bertolt Brecht classic "The Threepenny Opera" in a similar setting, this time at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. When FOX 5 interviewed Atlanta Opera artistic director Tomer Zvulun last fall, he explained the idea of staging the outdoor performances: "Being outside…under a circus 's surreal. ![]()
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