Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 5: Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Ministry of External affairs, organized a solo theatrical performance ‘Museum of Million Hamlets’, directed, designed and performed by Parnab Mukherjee, here today.
Through ‘Museum of Million Hamlets’, the director paid tribute to 450 years of William Shakespeare’s birth commemoration. The purpose of the piece was to peep into a director’s mind as he rehearses the play – who was Hamlet? A man lost in life…a waylaid person.. a woman coming to terms with her domestic and public person..a person grappling with what is political, apolitical and non-political..was Hamlet another word for death of a dream…was it a byword for social alienation, was Hamlet a term for the all the fringe and minority of the world.
Prominent among those who witnessed the show included Naveen Chopra, Kumar A Bharti, Vikram Sharma, Dr Baljeet Raina, Sudhir Mahajan, Sanjeev Gupta, Ravinder Sharma, Kamal Banka and Rajeshwar Singh Raju. The show was ably conducted by Abhishek Bharti.
Rakesh Gupta, Principal Secretary to Governor, was the chief guest on the occasion.
Earlier while introducing Parnab Mukherjee, the Regional Director ICCR, Balwant Thakur said that the former was one of the leading alternative theater directors of the country. He is an acclaimed practitioner on Badal Sircar’s theatre practice, Shakespeare-in-education and specialises in theatre-of-conflict and theatre-of-the-campus. He is considered as a leading light in alternative theatre in the country having directed more than 130 productions of performance texts including four international collaborations.
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