Take a quick tour around your home.  Find ordinary objects — household items sitting out in plain sight, miniature trains and trinkets gathering dust. Touch and see; do they tell a story? The theatre of objects, as a discipline, toys with such untransformed things. It is a kind of art-making that scrutinises possibilities of an article in movement, sound and character. Thing-A-Magic, an upcoming international object theatre festival, curated by the Tram Arts Trust and CSMVS, brings us close to the potentials and promises of daily-use items. “Object and storytelling are key to our practice. As a museum, that’s what we do in our galleries, through our displays. The form, although new, is practised by thespians all over the world,” says Joyoti Roy, who heads marketing and strategy at CSMVS. Reminding us of the times, Roy further says they wanted to host this performative visual art as it renders itself well, digitally. The four-day long festival will involve plays, workshops and interactive sessions for children. 

A still from  Sannidhi Surop’s Hunt