Madhurima Class 9 Chapter 2, The Stage Is Yours, begins the theatre section with a verse on nāṭya as a performance that pleases people of many different tastes. It gets you ready to make a play of your own.
What Madhurima Chapter 2 Covers
Revisiting the basics with Vidūṣhaka: the chapter brings back the witty companion of classical Indian theatre to revise body language, voice, expression and the nine rasas learnt in earlier grades.
Form your theatre team: students name their team, design a logo and define a purpose. The logo works like a costume does for a character: it tells the audience who you are at a glance, and the chapter uses the NCERT logo as an example to study.
Finding your story: a teacher asks a group arguing over comedy or mystery one question, ‘who are you telling it to?’ From there the chapter covers genre (tragedy, comedy, fantasy, musical, or a mix such as a comic tragedy) and the regional theatre forms of India.
Puppetry and mime: puppetry shows that a story can live in an object (a handkerchief becomes a bird, a stick becomes a king) through string, shadow, rod and glove puppets. Mime tells a story with no words at all; in Activity 2.3 the team mimes its shared goal.
Purposeful theatre: a step-by-step project starts with one social theme chosen by the group, such as what festivals do for community bonds or what makes young people hopeful today, and builds it into a short play.
Exercises in Chapter 2
- Act out two themes (‘Hard work leads to success’, ‘Being kind to those in trouble’) through body language, five spoken lines and a short story with a beginning, middle and end.
- Match the rasas raudra, bhayānaka, vīra, karuṇa and adbhuta with facial expressions.
- Plan a theatre workshop for your locality.
Read Madhurima Class 9 Chapter 2 Online
More Chapters
- Previous: Chapter 1: History of Arts
- Next: Chapter 3: Symbols and Metaphors on Stage
- All Art chapters and the other Class 9 books: Class 9 NCERT books 2026-27
FAQ
What does Madhurima Chapter 2 ‘The Stage Is Yours’ teach?
How to form a theatre team (name, logo, purpose), choose a story and genre for an audience, use puppetry and mime, and turn a social theme into a purposeful play.
Who is Vidūṣhaka?
The clever, witty companion of classical Indian theatre, used in Madhurima to revise body language, voice and expression.