A little girl lives on a farm; one day, she spots a big red, green, yellow bird. Lo and behold, the girl strikes a friendship with this big bird," says Arundhati Nag, artistic advisor, Rangashankara over a phone call from Bengaluru. "It is a story I heard from my mother, and would tell my daughter. I would keep adding in characters if she wasn't falling asleep. So her father, the dogs and the staffers at home would make an appearance, too. The girl is called Meena but she would be called Kavya [her daughter], in this version. That's what children like. It's like planting the seed and empowering them to take flight," she explains.

When the theatre knew their popular annual children's festival AHA (held in July) wouldn't see the light of day this year, they decided to take the theatre to children who are stuck at home. Titled Little Cloud, the storytelling festival spanning 10 days features 22 stories in five languages (Engligh, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil and Bengali) by 15 theatre artistes. The names include Ratna Pathak Shah, Pamavati Rao, MD Pallavi, Sharanya Ramprakash and Pondicherry-based Adishakti among others. Puppeteer Anurupa Roy and Kutiyattam dancer Kapila Venu make an appearance, too. Also available is a story in sign language by Kavya Srinivasan that Nag describes as "magical".