KU-BILBAT MUNI Explores Mobile Phone Addiction and Children

About the Play

The play strives to depict the effects of using mobile phone of the children with too much of engagement of games on mobile phone may lead to psychological effects and physical effects as well. The healthy individuals can create healthy nation for which individual have to be more cautious of their physical, mental, and social well-being. Physical exercise, playing games and other related activities keep an individual active and healthy which may not be replaced by game of technologies. Children should always be encouraged likewise.

In the play, a small boy has found that he is being addicted to playing mobile games which affects his interest of physical games and excel in his studies. Later parents realized that the too much using mobile phone may ultimately affects the children mentally, physically as well as their career achievement.

Director

Smt Sangma has completed a one-year Residential Certificate Course in Dramatic Arts from NSD Sikkim Theatre Training Centre Gangtok in 2015-16, and later worked there as a casual repertory artist until March 2021. She has worked with Dapon the Mirror, a theatre group in Tangla Assam. She has acted in several Assamese regional films. Furthermore, she actively participated in a 45-Days training workshop organized by the A·chik Literature Society in collaboration with IGNOU Shillong state resource centre, NEHU and the Meghalaya Science and Cultural Society and this is also a part of the indigenous music for livelihood project at Tura. She has also worked as faculty in various theatre workshops in Assam and Garo Hills in Meghalaya and she has experienced in Children’s Theatre Workshop.

Group

A-Chik Theatre is an amateur group, associated with Dapon the Mirror, Tangla. It lies in the Garo Hills, Tura of North East India in the District of West Garo Hills, Meghalaya. The main objective of the group is to organize workshop, Training, Demonstration shows, community building workshops etc.