NONIKA SINGH
HT Chandigarh Live
Tuesday, 13 February, 2007
Artistes staging a play “Ascent of Man” at Tagore Theatre in Chandigarh on Monday.
How man came into being. What he achieved over the course of time. The varied ages discoveries, inventions, glorious civilizations that define man’s history. All this and much more was packed in the children’s plays The Ascent of man. Staged at Tagore Theatre on Monday evening conceived, scripted and directed by Lushin Dubey and Bubbles Sabharwal, the Kidsworld production (in the city at the invitation of Durga Das Foundation) was a kaleidoscope of human past and coalesced entertainment with learning lessons. Taking off from fantasy Jessica Potter al la Harry Potter possess Histokryptostatic stone. And rubbing this she takes the audiences and the aliens back into pages of history. Thus paving the way to witness significant chapters of human past peppered with informative facts. So birth of Christianity the first printing press, Galileo laws of motion Harppan civilization Egyptian too, renaissance one after another the facts just rolled off.