Fourth-day of Natraj Natya Kunj’s Theatre Carnival
Lalit Gupta
JAMMU, Jan 19: Samooh Theatre presented Dogri adaptation of Hungarian playwright Fritz Karnethe’s ‘The Refund’ as the comedy play ‘Chitta Singh’, on the fourth day of the ongoing Theatre carnival, organized by Natraj Natya Kunj at the Abhinav Theatre, here today.
Written and directed by Ravinder Sharma, the play is about a former student of a school named Chitta Singh who goes back to the school in which he had studied and demands a refund of the tuition fees he had paid claiming that he had learned nothing useful at school and he is now good for nothing.
Chitta Singh’s demand shocks the principal and the staff. In order to prove the ex-student’s claim unfounded, they decide to examine him and prove him wrong by hook and crook. In a ludicrous display of convoluted logic, the teachers put a series of funny questions relating to different subjects and justify Chitta Singh’s neither here nor there answers as the right ones and declare him successful in the test.
Play’s dialogues laced with colloquial expressions, phrases, and one-liners, alluding to the contemporary scenario of corrupt social practices, commercialization of education, and the crises faced by theatre artists and practitioners of other creative fields-were successful in engaging the audience. The young actors presented a combination of farce, satire, and slapstick comedy through fluent body movements, gestures, and voice modulations.
The cast of the play included Ravinder Sharma as Chitta Singh, Sandeep Manhas as Principal, Rohit Bains as Receptionist, Jhanvi Sharma as Physics Teacher, Deepika Rani as Geography Teacher, Ajay Tamang as History Teacher, Vinay Sharma as Math Teacher and Shammi Dhammir as the other old Student.
Tomorrow, on the penultimate day of the Theatre Carnival, Natrang will present the play ‘Kasak’ under the direction of Rahul Singh.
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