Lalit Gupta
JAMMU, Mar 29: The second performance of ongoing North Zone Culture Centre’s (NZCC) theater festival ‘Romeo Juliet and Seven Clowns was staged at Government Women College, Gandhi Nagar, here today.
Presented by Seva Drama Repertoire, Chandigarh and directed by Sukhmani Kohli, today’s experimental production based on latest theatre language of ‘clowning’, came as a whiff of fresh for the local theatre community as well as the audience.
Though based on story line of Shakespeare’s Romeo Juliet, the play, enacted by all male young actors displaying advantage of the academic as well as professional training in the art of drama, showcased the elements of pure theatre. Banking upon mostly mime, the actors successfully created a make belief world through gesture, flexible body movements and facial expressions.
Aimed at providing an opportunity to feel the basic emotions and allow the clown in every one to surface, the over all performance by cast of seven clowns in multiple situational roles, supported by Sufi music, was appreciated by spectators.
Those who acted in the play included P Chandershekhar, Jasbir, Vinod, Sachin, Minku, Jagga, Akhilesh and Rinku.
The NZCC Theatre Festival 2013 had opened with Amateur Theater Group’s presentation ‘Do Kori Ka Khel’, directed by Ifra Kak. Tomorrow Vijay Tendulakar’s ‘Sakha Ram Binder’ would be presented by a theatre group from Mandi, Himachal Pradesh.
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