Natraj Natya Kunj stages Dogri play at Chandigarh

A scene from the play ‘Macbeth: The Crown of Blood’ staged at Chandigarh on Sunday.
A scene from the play ‘Macbeth: The Crown of Blood’ staged at Chandigarh on Sunday.

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 17: Natraj Natya Kunj, Cultural Society here today performed Dogri adaptation of William Shakespeare play ‘Macbeth: The Crown of Blood’ in 14th TFT Winter National Theatre Festival at Chandigarh.
The Fest was organized by ‘Theatre For Theatre’ Chandigarh this month and it included various folk performances, street play festival, Kavi Sammalen, Mushaira, workshops and exhibitions.
Elucidating about the play, Director Abhishek Bharti said the play is about the destruction wrought when ambition goes unchecked by moral constraints.
Mani is a courageous Scottish general who is not naturally inclined to commit evil deeds, yet he deeply desires power and advancement. He kills the king against his better judgment and afterward stews in guilt and paranoia.
Toward the end of the play he descends into a kind of frantic, boastful madness. Nanda, one of Shakespeare’s most forcefully drawn female characters, spurs her husband mercilessly to kill the king and urges him to be strong in the murder’s aftermath, but she is eventually driven to distraction by the effect of Mani’s repeated bloodshed on her conscience. The problem, the play suggests, is that once one decides to use violence to further one’s quest for power, it is difficult to stop.
The artists who participated in the play were Lalit Sharma, Karan Mehra, Akshay Razdan, Aman Sharma, Mukesh Bakshi, Niharika Sakshi, Kanav Sharma, Priya Sharma, Anshika Sharma and Hema Shivgotra.

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