Thirteen years ago, began our wonderful tryst with theatre – we staged our first play, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory directed by Bubbles Sabharwal and Lushin Dubey. Thereafter, it was a month long theatre workshop that ended with a play performed by the students every year. It is grueling work, yet when the audience applauds in appreciation, when proud parents pat their children’s backs with joy, the children cherish only these moments of glory.

The theatre is the only medium which invoves the body, the mind, the heart and the psychic centre of being. Recognising this, the drama workshop became a part of the vision that is shared by the school’s Chairman and the Manager. They wanted to involve students in an activity that gave them the platform to realize their own latent talents. They wanted the parents to watch their children blossom out in spheres besides academics.
The play was seen as the medium that explored, discerned and awakened the dormant abilities in such students as were never tapped and appreciated by others. And year after year we have continued to put up wonderful plays. It fills us with great pleasure to say that we could do this all within shoestring budgets.
In these years, the school has produced such landmark musicals such as Apna Apna Bhagya, John the Valiant, Raggity and the Cloud, Broody Yanko  Uff Yeh Bachche,Teen Mote and this year Magic Years

I had a dream, a crazy dream, anything I want to know. Anyplace I needed to go. Hear my song people, won't you listen? You don't know what you're missing now. Start with any little song that you know, everything that's small has to grow. And it has. California sunlight, sweet Calcutta rain, Honolulu star bright - the song remains the same.

Magic Years’ combines dance with drama. It weaves the stories of some teenagers – their adolescent tribulations and how they grow up into successful young men and women who had carved their own lives. The teenage years termed as the magic years, are, in a way, the decisive years of one’s life when the teenager struggles to find his own place under the sun - when he becomes aware of himself and gradually emerges from his chrysalis to become the beautiful butterfly.

In the greenroom these children were children. On stage they proved they were accomplished actors. The cast as a whole played well and considering most of them were first timers, some of the actors like Sonia, Yash, Sonia’s mother and some others gave a very sensitive performance. Another excellent performance came from Yash’s father who had a very good voice. The entire cast gave a good account as actors, but Kanu Grover and Nandini Seth as Sonia, the typical teenager disinterested in academics yet keen on the creative arts shone above the others. The beautifully choreographed dance sequences also won the hearts of everyone in the audience.

The portrayal of recognizable characters and situations made the audience identify themselves with the characters and understand the predicaments of the parents and the teenagers alike. They felt they had been mirrored on stage. An excellent play for children.

Mrs Mohini Bindra feels the play is the perfect blend of the academic and the co-curricular for it gets children involved in not acting alone but other things such as designing sets and writing your own dialogues.

Feisal Alkazi, Ebrahim Alkazi's son, is a man of no mean resources when it comes to kids and theatre.That he is the son of a man popularly known as the father of modern Indian theatre, however weighs lightly on his shoulders."Though I chose to follow my father's footsteps I've never strived to come out of his shadow to make my name separately," says Feisal acknowledging the greatness of his father.

Despite his obvious modesty, Feisal Alkazi himself is a man of substance when it comes to children's theatre.But then he wears many hats. Besides being a theatre and television director he is also an educationist, counsellor, trainer and costume designer.