Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 27: Five day theatre festival to commemorate World Theatre Day celebrations commenced here today at Natrang Studio Theatre with the staging of play ‘Mulaqaat’ based on Vaclav Havel’s ‘Audience’ which was adapted in Hindi by Naveen Pant and Dr. Sharada Yadav.
The play was directed by Mohd. Yaseen.
The play revolves around a meeting between a brewery manager and an employee ‘Vanek’.
While the manager is clearly opening too many beers and inducing binge drinking, it is less clear what he wants from Vanek.
‘Audience’ was the first of Vaclav Havel’s partly autobiographical one-act plays known as the “Vanek Trilogy” based on his experience of being subject to forced work while under constant harassment from the then system.
The character of ‘Vanek’ was closest to Havel himself, it tells of a dissident writer who is forced to work in a brewery, so that he can contribute to society rather than be an intellectual bourgeois burden.
The play ‘Mulaqaat’ in a dramatic way, depicts a rendezvous of two different identities with different background and social status which yields a conversation which is nonfigurative yet concrete in certain manner.
Artists who participated in the play were Brijesh Avtar Sharma and Sushant Singh Charak.
Lights were designed and operated by Neeraj Kant and the music was rendered by Sagar Gupta.
Tomorrow on the second day of Natrang Theatre Festival, ‘Jangiram Ki Haveli will be featured under the direction of Neeraj Kant at 5 pm.
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