Atelier Repertory Company

After 8 years of intermittent theatre-work, Atelier Repertory Company (ARC) started as a regular independent theatre performing company in 2011-12. Over a decade, ARC has produced more than 25 full length productions with more than 1000 shows across India: the major ones are "Goodbye Blue Sky"; "SUS"; "Baaki Itihaas"; "Collaborators"; "Kuchh Afsaney"; "The Zoo Story"; "Khusar Phusar"; "Refund"; "Degho Tegho Fateh"; "Daastaan-E-Punjab"; "Project Antigone"; "Seekh Kabab"; "Prithvi"; Short Circuit"; "Perfect Wedding" & "Daastaan-E-Guru Nanak". Additionally, Atelier's Weekend Theatre Programme (WTP) produced students' productions including "Oh Fuck!"; "Rang-Prasai"; "Control Z": "Bohot Bada Sawaal"; "The Little Prince" and many more. This all was happening at Atelier, Ghitorni with a three floor building dedicated to theatre and performing arts. 

In 2017-18, ARC toured 5 states of North India with 50 plus shows in 11 cities in two months, becoming a travelling theatre company with 18 actors and 5 major productions with Kuljeet Singh as the Creative Director. The travel continued till March, 2020 when Covid arrived and the world stalled. In May 2021, we were left with no other option but to vacate Atelier space at Ghitorni. For almost two years, were homeless...

During Covid, from the safe confines of our homes, we started developing theatre pieces for smaller number of audiences and in the absence of available performance spaces, proposed HOME THEATRE - a project in which actors would travel to domestic spaces/homes and perform for smaller captive audience instead of calling the audiences to auditoriums. This was blessing in disguise and became a saving grace. Overtime, we started receiving invites from diverse spaces & audiences: high-rise towers in Noida & Gurgaon; Gurudwaras; Temples; Museums; backyards, basements, terraces and what not... This changed the way we had been working over the past several years. "Daastaan-E-Guru Nanak", the musical daastaan about the life and travels of Baba Nanak was invited to Adelaide Fringe, Australia in 2023 where we did 6 shows along with 3 more at Melbourne before returning back to India. This was our second International tour after Dubai (UAE) in 2019. 

Atelier Repertory, at present, has been performing quite regularly in auditoriums and makeshift spaces. Our upcoming productions are "Chai Kahaani" (written by Vaibhav Mishra & Mansi Grover) scheduled for August 19, 2023 at Akshara Theatre, New Delhi & Sarbpreet Singh's "Jujhar Cheema" (a Punjabi retelling of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar"), scheduled for September 8, 2023.

Atelier Repertory on an average delivers 80 shows, annually. CLICK here to see the list of the productions by ARC.