Book Reading Session

On the 20^th of Dec Grade 9 (CBSE) experienced a very captivating and invigorating Book Reading Session conducted by members of the Little Theatre- (A theatre group of Hyderabad).We had a very enthralling one hour session by six  esteemed readers of the group reading and enacting excerpts from stories, novels , poems and drama. We had amongst us Shankar Melkote the founder member of Little Theatre and a renowned actor in films, TV as well as plays,  his nephew Ravi Shankar Melkote who too has been conducting  reading sessions , B.S Prakash who was the man behind selecting the materials for the reading session –another famous actor on stage, TV and films. We also had Sarala Mahidhara, Director of several plays and a regular reader with the Little Theatre, Vijay Marur a film maker, a voice-over artiste and a creative writer. A theatre veteran he has been reading regularly with the Little Theatre and Jayashree Uppal, who has contributed towards creative writing pieces and has been associated with the theatre group since its inception.

The readers read out pieces from Vikram Seth’s “The Louse and the Mosquito”, Ogden Nash’s “Song to be sung by the father of infant female Children ”, “The Pickwick Papers “by Charles Dickens, Gerald Durrel’s  “My family and other  Animals”, an essay from – H..G Gardiners “The Shaking Hand” PG Wodehouse’- “The dinner at Blandings Castle ending the session with a portrayal of a few acts from Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice”.