From the Kannada play Prameelarjuneeyam makes use of music and actions from Yakshagana, the favored folks dance type of Karnataka.
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Puck, Oberon, Titania, Nick Backside are names that an ardent William Shakespeare fan will recall immediately. However can one think about these characters from his celebrated work, A Midsummer Night time’s Dream turning into Ashuga, Manmatha, Rati, Prameela and Arjuna. That is exactly what occurred within the Kannada play Prameelarjuneeyam, which was offered lately on the Multi-Lingual Theatre competition at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in Chennai.
With a want to convey wonderful theatrical productions from throughout the nation for the Chennai viewers, this competition curated by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, has begun making a mark within the metropolis’s cultural calendar.
Natana Rangashaale’s Prameelarjuneeyam, directed by Meghasameera, primarily based on the interpretation of Shakespeare’s comedy play by M. L. Srikantesha Gowda in 1896, makes use of music and actions from Yakshagana, the favored folks dance type of Karnataka.
With a contact of comedy
The story is ready in Mala Yala, the place princess Prameela, a warrior, after conquering Arjuna falls in love with him and prepares for his or her wedding ceremony. In the meantime, Kairave and Jayantha are in love, and so are Padmini and Vasantha. However Kairave’s father desires her to marry Vasantha, the boy he has chosen for her. Kairave decides to elope with Jayantha. She informs Padmini about her plans, who, together with Vasantha, follows them to the forest. At this level, Manmatha, Rati and Ashuga (Manmatha’s aide) enter the story. Manmatha tells Ashuga concerning the juice of Nilotpala flower, which may make an individual fall in love with whoever he/she sees on waking up within the morning. It ends in a comedy of errors because the lovers get interchanged. How the confusion will get resolved makes for some hilarious and entertaining twists and turns.
The set comprised material hanging within the 4 corners of the stage, with a throne positioned within the centre. These props had been used superbly in numerous sequences. The material typically grew to become timber, pillars or ropes of a swing.
Actions of Yakshagana had been woven into the play in a seamless method, and the affect was enhanced with the presence of musicians on stage. The good comedian timing of the actors sustained the momentum until the final scene.
An intense Malayalam play
From Niyamavarthanam staged on the Multi-Lingual drama competition, organised by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Chennai.
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To create performs which might be related but rooted appears to be the purpose of the Kochi-based Rasa Theatre Collective, based by Sidharth Varma and Rahul Thomas. The group staged Niyamavarthanam on the competition.
The play revolved across the head of a Catholic household, the previous and visually impaired Appachan. His unshakeable religion within the establishment of church is in direct battle along with his daughter Lissy’s beliefs, who desires to terminate her second being pregnant. Attempting to appease each is Antony, the son-in-law. Lissy’s youthful sister Nancy, who has already excommunicated for ending her marriage, helps her.
The emotional battle between religion and girls’s rights was dealt with nicely. The actors saved the viewers engrossed with their performances.
The ideas of religion and sin had been conveyed by a brilliantly conceived scene, the place Lissy is seen smearing water from a bowl over her arms and face as if symbolising purification. She shares the white fabric that she is sitting on along with her father, sending out the message that they’ve come to respect one another’s standpoint.
Refined lighting, minimal props and intense performances had been the highlights of the play.
