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On this World Theatre Day for Children and Young Audience (March 20), take your child and his/her friends to watch a play, meant for them. Bringing to Pune three theatrical performances, precisely for this reason, is Meena Naik, a veteran theatre artist and puppeteer from Mumbai. Naik, who has been working on children related social issues through theatre and puppets for last four decades is also the vice-president of ASSITEJ India. ASSITEJ or Association of Theatre for Young Audiences is an international organisation with 87 countries as its participants. It began as a movement, after Second World War, and sought to help children who were impacted by the war and the ravages it brought. “ To pull them out of the trauma, ASSITEJ started as a movement to present plays which would address the issues of these children. The idea was that adults would enact the roles of children and address their issues. ASSITEJ observes March 20 as World Theatre Day for Children and Young Audience ...