In the summer of 2000, at the end of a fun-filled four-day children’s theatre camp in Kochi organised by Lokadharmi Centre for Theatre, a participant asked its facilitator, Lokadharmi’s artistic director and eminent dramaturg Chandradasan why he could not make the camp a regular feature.
Taken by surprise, Chandradasan readily replied that he would be there the next day and anyone who wished to come by could do so. “To my joy, I found that at least eight children had turned up,” says Chandradasan.
That was the starting point of Lokadharmi’s Mazhavillu, a children’s theatre initiative in the city, which has been organising workshops every Saturday since 2000.
