Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 9: Samooh Theatre today staged a Dogri translation of Sophocles’s Greek play “Antigone” here at KL Saigal hall.
The play Antigone is about two brothers leading opposite sides in Thebes’ civil war who had died fighting each other for the throne. Creon, the new ruler of Thebes, has decided that Eteocles will be honored and Polyneices will be in public shame. The rebel brother’s body will not be sanctified by holy rites, and will lie unburied on the battlefield, prey for carrion animals like worms and vultures and the harshest punishment at the time.
The play was designed and directed by Ravinder Sharma and translated by Dr Sudhir Mahajan while music was designed by Suriender Manhas and Rohit Bains did the choreography of the play. Shivani Anand wrote the starting poetry to make bridge between previous two and this play.
The artists who made the stage vibrant by playing the various characters in the play included Kanika Sharma as Antigone, Preeti Sharma as Ismene, Pankaj Sharma as Creon, Anku Rajput as Eurydice, Abhishake Bhatt as sentry, while Dooth by Munish Malhotra and Rajat Gupta. Rohit Chib, Ajay Tamang, Goutam Sharma and Abhisheak Bhatt gave scintillating performance in the chorus.
The lights were artistically designed by Avinash Lakhnotra, make-up by Shami Dhamir and assisted by Neha Bhogal, costumes by Kumar A Bharti and stage management by Naresh Kesar.
The play was witnessed by Shadi Lal, Vinod Chopra, Janak Khajuria, Er Vijay Sharma, Rajneesh Gupta, Tejinder Singh, Devinder Singh, Vishav Nagrik, Dr Sushil Sharma, Dr Mano Jeet, Rajneesh Gupta, artists, theatre activists, writers and the members of the civil society.
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