The Shri Ram Centre for Performing Arts (SRCPA) commonly referred as Shri Ram Centre, is one of Delhi's noted theatre organisation and theatre venues. It is situated at Mandi House on Safdar Hashmi Marg, New Delhi, close to the Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra, Kamani Auditorium, Triveni Kala Sangam and the National School of Drama.
It is run by the Indian National Theatre Trust, established in 1958 the promotion of Art and Culture, with people like Sheila Bharat Ram, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Nandita Kriplani and Aditya Srivastava associated with it.History SRC website. The Centre runs a certified two-year-acting-course. The SRCPA Theatre Repertory Company started in 1980 and Puppet Theatre company, which over the years saw the rise of modern puppetry under puppeteer Dadi Padamjee.
History
The present building of the Centre opened in the ’60s. The Brutalist building, built between 1966 and 1969, was designed by Shiv Nath Prasad and Mahendra Raj with help from theatre doyen, Ebrahim Alkazi, and was constructed under the overall supervision of industrialist Vinay Bharat Ram of Shriram Group (DCM Ltd.), from the industrialist family of Lala Shri Ram. The Shankar Lal Murli Dhar Auditorium is a proscenium theatre with a capacity of 375 people at two levels; 300 in the stall & 75 in the balcony. The building also had basement theatre which closed after a few decades, due to municipality regulations.
Since 1970s, each year, it also hold its Annual Summer Theatre Festival, Annual Shiela Bharat Ram Theatre Festival and Annual Panna Bharat Ram Theatre Festival besides being the venue of several theatre festivals, and events.
Repertory
The SRCPA Repertory was set up in 1980 by theatre director Rajinder Nath. Presently, the Repertory is a full-time professional resident theatre company, performing regularly in Delhi and in other parts of the country. The company comprises 14 artists and a resident director namely, Sameep Singh (Chief of Repertory)
Over the years, the SRC Repertory Company has been working with directors like Rajinder Nath (1976-1981, 1983–89), Ranjit Kapoor, B.V. Karanth, Habib Tanveer, B.M. Shah, Bansi Kaul, Piyush Mishra, Suresh Sharma, Roysten Abel, Sanjay Upadhyay, Bapi Bose, Avtaar Sahni, Chittaranjan Tripathi, Urmil Kumar Thapliyal, Mushtaq Kak, Chetan Dattar, Rabijita Gogoi, Aniruddh Khutwad, K. Madvane, K.S. Rajendran, Zafar Sanjari, Sameep Singh, Sohaila Kapur and Niloy Roy.
See also Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra
References
External links Official website