Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 21: 3rd Natrang Theatre Festival of 2018 concluded today with the superb presentation of Shakespeare’s globally acclaimed play ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ under the direction of Aarushi Thakur Rana who also adapted and designed this magnificent performance.
Currently settled in England, Aarushi after graduating from St Stephens, New Delhi did her Masters from University of Leister, UK and also specialised in dramatics from Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, London.
Earlier welcoming the jam-packed audience, Natrang Director, Balwant Thakur dwelt in detail about the journey of Natrang’s 35 eventful years.
He said to mark these celebrations Natrang is organising a festival of four plays every month since May, 2018 and so far 12 major plays of Natrang have been featured in these festivals. Natrang has set a target of showcasing 48 major plays by its own team of directors, designers and actors.
Today’s play ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is William Shakespeare’s most popular comedy, set in an enchanted forest with fairies, sparring lovers and a group of comical actors who are putting on a play. It is a story of order and disorder, reality and appearance and love and marriage.
The play consists of three interconnecting plots, in the first plot Egeus, a military advisor wants his rebellious daughter Hermia to marry Demetrius but Hermia refuses, because she’s in love with Lysander. He orders Hermia to obey her father or, according to regional law, she must face a death penalty.
The artists who participated in the play included Mahikshit Singh, Gautam Kumar, Gopi Sharma, Sanket Bhagat, Sonalika Jamwal, Goutam Sharma, Gauri Thakur, Vrinda Sharma, Mohit Koul, Manoj Kumar Lalotra, Vrinda Gujral, Saanvi Anand, Vanshika Gupta, Agam Kaur, Kyannat Gupta, Sushant Singh Charak, Mihir Gujral, Bhisham Gupta, Rahul Gupta, Imtiyaz Shah, Afaque Khan and Ajay Kumar Lalotra.
The lights of the play were designed and executed by Shivam Singh who also looked after the sets and properties of the play whereas the sound was rendered by by Brijesh Avtaar Sharma.
The show was coordinated by Abhi Bargotra and the presentations were done by Sunita Pandit.
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