All the World’s a Stage and all Freshers are Actors
Reported by Ankit Khanna 2nd Engineering Physics
Photos by Hardeep Singh, 1st Engineering Physics
 | IT-BHU has a long standing tradition of excellence in theatre and it was prolonged on Sunday, October 29. IT students thronged G-11 to witness the 2006 edition of the Fachcha Skit competition. The Fachcha Skit Competition is an annual fixture on IT’s extra curricular calender, it serves to expose the first year students to acting, script writing and other theatrical activities. There was barely any standing room left in G-11 as the budding thespians of the first year put on grand display.
The judges for the evening were “Dada” Vishwanath Bose, who has been guiding IT students in theatre for over a decade; Mr Anjani Kumar Rai, a student of 4th year Ceramics and a stalwart of theatre in IT; and Mr Vipul Shukla, a visiting theatre expert. There were 10 skits performed in all, all about 15 minutes in length. All branches participated, with smaller branches(integrated M-techs, Dual Degrees and Pharmacy) grouped with larger ones. The groupings were predefined. |
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A great innovation this time by the theatre wing was that they introduced offstage fillers- mono-acting, mimicry etc- in between skits. All teams participating in the skit competition were required to make one filler lasting about 3 minutes. The skits were all based on original ideas and were of humorous or satirical genre. They encompassed a wide-variety of subjects-from college life to reality shows. The ovation that some of the skits received was deafening. First year students worked for several days along with seniors from their branches to prepare themselves for the event. Skit Competition results: First: Engineering Physics and Electronics Best Filler: Engineering Physics and Electronics | |