You are Neil/Neilena, a student of grade 9. You had recently enrolled for an online drama workshop.The workshop was conducted over a week. However, you found that the workshop was not organized well. The online site boasted of many activities and sessions but none of these were met. You are highly disappointed by this. Write a letter to ‘TNA Theater Academy’ complaining about this. (120-150 words)
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Although nothing can equal the experience that a staged performance with hundreds packed in an auditorium, gives, it is imperative to adapt to the circumstances that surround us. Actors, directors and technicians across the world that make the medium of theatre thrive, have decided to take this challenge head-on. The fact that social and physical interaction are key components of the genre is what makes this challenging. The age of IGTV and Facebook live have changed the format altogether: what was once used to provide sneak-peeks into the lives of celebrities has now become a global stage for performing artistes to cater to their social distancing connoisseurs, every evening.
Though we do not yet have anything even remotely close to the New York-based 24 Hours play format — where homebound screenwriters and directors are commissioned to devise a play featuring homebound actors within the span of 24 hours — some Chennai-based theatre enthusiasts are seeing this as an opportunity to turn things around. CreaShakti, a group that focusses mostly on theatre and education, has been devising a way to keep its little audiences entertained. With the help of its in-house illustrator, Priscilla Dillen, it has been putting out comic strips (one panel a day) on its social media handles, titled The Adventures of Pandi and Meenakshi