Guild of Actors at SPJIMR-Mumbai Stages Award Winning Play, "Harvest"

Guild of Actors at SPJIMR-Mumbai Stages Award Winning Play, "Harvest"

15th January 2009 was an iconic day for the PGDM 2008-10 Batch of SPJIMR, Mumbai. 36 of them had put their heart and soul to ensure that GASP was ready for its 6th play in the same number of years. As the clock struck 6:00 PM, the college just saw,

"Red, Red & More Red". In a message of strong solidarity for the effort put in by the GASP team members, each one of their batch-mates came dressed in red, a colour that has now become synonymous with GASP. What started off 6 years back as a voluntary non-classroom initiative has today almost become a way of life at SPJIMR. GASP (Guild of Actors @ SP) was jointly initiated by the PGDM participants of SPJIMR and Prof. Uma Narain under the aegis of the ADMAP (Assessment & Development of Managerial & Administrative Potential) Program in the year 2003. The baby was born out of a confluence of theatre and management, wherein participants use theatre to put to use the various management and administrative principles they learn during the course.

As the years have progressed, GASP has become an expression of SPJIMR's creative and theatrical identity. Planned, driven and executed entirely by students, it is an annual event where the new PGDM batch displays its mettle at conducting and acting in a full play staged at the SPJIMR auditorium for all its family members. Each batch chisels its performance into the collective consciousness of the institute, and each year's performance spins off folklore on the effort, execution and final display during the GASP staging. Through all these years, GASP hasn't lost out on its primary objective and continues to serve as an ideal recipe to bring to light multifarious aspects of team behaviour and group dynamics.

GASP in the year of its initiation, put up "Tughlaq" by Girish Karnad. Since then each year GASP has grown and blossomed with some phenomenal performances like Mahesh Dattani's "The Final Solutions" in 2004, Vijay Tendulkar's "Silence, The Court is in Session" in 2005 and "Kamala" in 2006. Last year, GASP portrayed an adaptation of Jean Paul Sartre's "Men Without Shadows". 2009 though was a time for one of India's lesser-known playwrights, Manjula Padmanabhan to step into the limelight as GASP decided to portray her award winning play, "Harvest" on the 15th of January.

"Harvest" by Manjula Padmanabhan

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Contributed by -
Sripradish Kapikad,
PGDM, Batch of 2008-10,
S. P. Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai.

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