THEATRE ACTIVITIES AT UNIVERSITY LEVEL/PARTICIPATION IN AMATEUR THEATRE/ACTING IN FILM
Did Concept designing and Script writing for the following Productions besides playing roles:
- “Amrita Devi: Warrior of Environment”Concept, Script, Production,
Direction, Stage Management by Dr. R. Purnima, performed twice on
25.11.2023, Actors were from the Main stream, First generation learners
and Transgender Community
- “Towards Forest Management and Biodiversity: Theatre Salutes Environmentalists” Did Concept Designing and Script Writing.
Readings
7 times on and offline before a group of Theatre enthusiasts, Kalasuruchi on 5.6.2022 and once before the students doing their Diploma Course at Mandya Ramesh’s Natana Rangashaale, in Mysuru on 16.5.2022
- “Fascinating Astronomy: You Thrill Us and We Admire You” Did Concept Designing and Script Writing between March and May of 2020.
Readings
at Mandya Ramesh’s Natana Rangashale, Mysuru on 15.2.2021
at Kala Suruchi, Mysuru 23.2.2021
Mysore Astronomical Society, (Webinar), 26.7.2020
at Chinmaya School teachers, Mysuru, 9.9.2020
before a group of Theatre Enthusiasts, 2020
Sri Sathya Sai Baba High School Students :
Reading Club Sree Satya Sai Baba High School
- Stage Chemistry: Neuro-Psychiatric Disorders on Stage.Did Concept designing /Script Writing/Direction/Production/Costume Designing/Stage Management and Acting by Dr.R. Purnima ALREADY STAGED 412 TIMES, 375 TIMES ONE- WOMAN SHOW PERFORMED BY DR. R. PURNIMA, May 2018 Onwards.
- Exploitation and Towards Empowerment .Played the Role of a Teacher – February and March 2017
- Dreams and Dreamers Concept Designing, Script Writing, Production, Direction and Played the Roles of the Narrator, Vasavadatta, Niece of Don Quixote, Madame Bovary, Seethe on 27.3.2016
- In Search of Shakespeare and Kuvempu 2015 Did Concept Designing and Script Writing . I also played nearly 8 roles.
- Avon to Kaveri (In connection with the 450th Birth Centenary Year of William Shakespeare ) 2014
- The Opening Scene of the Tempest produced by Karnataka State Open University, Mysore and Doordarshan, Bangalore. The Tempest is a prescribed text for the PG students of the Karnataka State Open University. Played the role of a student. 2004
- Stree Shakti (Self Help Group) is an effort to visually present the functioning of rural Self-Help Groups through narration and dramatization. The play aims to present Self-Help Groups as agents of change bringing about far reaching economic and social transformation in rural areas. Stree Shakti was first presented before a batch of American students who were in Mysore to do a course on Gender Studies. Played the role of a Journalist. 2004
- Mukta Vidye (Open Learning). The play talks about the strengths of Open Distance Learning system and innovative teaching methods. Played the role of a parent 2004
- Kurudu Nayee (“The Blind Dog” - A Short story by R.K. Narayan. This was staged in connection with the Centenary Celebrations of R.K. Narayan. Produced, directed and played the role of a school teacher and a mentally challenged woman who briefly appears in a choultry. 2004
- Enactment of the “Sleep-Walking Scene” (From Shakespeare’s Macbeth,) before the participants of the UGC Refresher Course and the students of the Department of English of the Karnataka State Open University. Macbeth is prescribed for study at the Postgraduate level.
- Enactment of the last scene from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Hamlet is a prescribed text. This was enacted before the new batch of counselors identified to teach at the Study Centres of KSOU. Played the role of Gertrude.
- Students of JCBM College, Sringeri, participate in Theatre in Education Workshop. A Scene from Nissim Ezekiel poem “Night of the Scorpion”.
Participation in Amateur Theater/ Rangayana Following is the list of the important plays and the roles played by me
Title of the Play |
The Role Played |
Karnad’s Yayati |
Devayani |
Karnad’s Tughlak |
The Step Mother |
Basava Raj’s Satyaharichandra |
Kalakantaki |
A.N. Murthy Rao’s Ashada Bhoothi |
Sharade |
Yoganarasimha’s Bhairavi Venkatasubbaiah |
Puttathayamma |
Samsa’s Vijayanarasimha |
Mother-in- law and Maid |
M.P. Prakash’s Surya Shikari* |
Madhukarika |
Kuvempu’s Rakthakshi |
Cheluvambe |
Nimmishta (A Kannada translation of Shakespeare’s As You Like It) |
Phebe |
Chaugle’s Kasturba** |
Susheela Behen |
Udaya’s Horatada Haadi (StreetTheatre) |
Queen of Kittor |
Kuvempu’s Balidaana |
Annie Besant |
Bhaktha Dhruva (Voice rendered) |
Narayana |
Parvathavani’s Keechaka |
Sudeshne |
V. N. Ashwath’s Sree Krishnasandhana*** |
Jayamma, Rukmini and Draupadi |
Karmayogi Namma Chammaiah Mestru |
Ashwath’s Daughter Vijaya |
Yoganarasimha’s Aduge Bhatta |
A Mad Woman and Lilli |
H.L. Bhyrappa’s Mandra |
Manohari Das |
Jayaram’s Shivaji |
Jeeja Bai |
Ka.Tha.Chikanna’s Chaduranga |
Vijaya and a Folk Dancer |
Farad Sorabji’s English Play Hard Places |
Mother |
P. Lankesh’s T. Prasannana Grihasthashrama |
Lakshmi |
Latha Rajshekar’s Ahimsa Paramodharmaha |
Vijaya |
Nagachandra’s Rajaparameshwara |
Tirumaladevi |
Kambar’s Huliya Neralu |
Old Woman II and was also part of the Chorus |
Mandre’s Stree Ratna |
Basavanti |
D. A. Shankar’s Kaleduhodavaru |
Lakshmivilasa |
Horeyala Doreswamy’s Konave Gowda |
The Old Woman in the village and the Maid of the Goddess |
Bhadrappa Shi Henly’s Andha Gandhara |
Maid |
Parvathi’s Kapi Mushti |
Cook |
Mahashwetha Devi’s Rudali |
Misri and Rudali |
R. Purnima’s In Search of Shakespeare and Kuvempu |
Played 8 Roles |
Shivaram Karanth’s Alida Mele |
Jalaja |
R. Purnima’s Dreams and Dreamers |
Played 5 Roles |
Prem Chand’s Godan,Select scenes only , |
Dhania |
H.S. Venkateshmurthy's Manthara |
Manthara |
Prem Chand’s Godan, Select scenes only |
Dhania |
R. Purnima’s Exploitation and Towards Empowerment |
Teacher |
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Chandrakanth Kusnur’s Kannada adaptation of Fedrico Garcia Lorka’s The House of Bernard Alba |
Jahanara Begum |
*The Play
Surya Shikari was staged at the National Festival organized at Hampi on November 3 2005, and
Horatada Haadi, organized by Rangayana, as part of the Bahuroopi National
Drama Festival
** This Play was part of the Theater workshop organized for the prisoners of Central Jail, Mysore. The objective of the workshop was to heal, inspire and bring prisoners into mainstream. This Play was again staged in the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, in connection with the Regional seminar on “Mental Health and Substance Use Problems in Prisons: Local Lessons for National Action” in Bangalore, January 2011.
I have done Costume Designing for the Kannada version of T.S. Eliot’s play
The Cocktail Party
***I have acted 20 times in V. N. Ashwath’s Sree Krishnasandhana, while several others have been staged several times.
Dr.R.Purnima as Rukmini and P. Nagabhushan as Sree Krishna in V. N. Ashwath’s Sree Krishnasandhana, Directed By B Renuka Prasanna