Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 12: This Sunday, Natrang staged ‘Man who married a dumb wife’- a hilarious comedy play which is an adaptation of a French Folk drama by Anatole France. The play has been adapted and directed by Aarushi Thakur. The play enhanced with many contemporary instances was much appreciated by the audience.
The story of the play revolves around a rich young boy who has a large, fanciful house and a special servant to look after him. He enjoys the life of luxury. He is also selfish and spoiled and on top of all that he has an over possessive girlfriend. She is not only obsessive but also paranoid and irritates him by calling him umpteenth number of times. He decides to break his relationship and settle down for a girl who talks less. He meets various girls for marriage but all in vein. Finally a man comes with a proposal of his daughter, she has all the qualities of a perfect girl but just lacks one quality that she is dumb. The use of the word dumb in this context is not an insult on intelligence, but demonstrates the fact that wife does not have the ability to speak. Seeing the situation, the boy decides to marry her because she is exactly the kind of girl he wanted. She doesn’t talk, that means she would never fight or irritate him. He quickly notices that the advantages that he thought he would receive after his marriage would not be coming so easily. He no longer can overlook his wife’s inability to talk. This drives him to frustration, an emotion that he does not commonly feel. He realises that he got married in haste not realising that communication is a vital part of a marriage. After weeks he realises his fault and decides to take her to a doctor. The doctor cures her of her ailment and she can speak. Now that she can speak, she talks so much that the husband is annoyed to an extent that he decides to go to the doctor to fix the problem. Finding no solution to the problem, he decides to go deaf.
The actors who participate in the play include Sachin Bamba, Mahikshit Singh, Vanshika Gupta, Shubham Soni, Shivam Singh, Anam Malik, Syed Mudassar Ali, Rajan Thakyal, Shazia Batool, Manish Mahajan, Namit Dubey, Gopi Sharma Joshi, Manik Sharma, Shivangi Langer and Sanchita Dubey. Lights were done by Neeraj Kant and the music was operated by Shekhar Sharma. The presentations of the play were done by Mahikshit Singh.
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