Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 28: In its ongoing Theatre Fest, Natrang here today staged play ‘Bishop’s Candlesticks’ written by Norman Mckinnel and directed by Neeraj Kant.
The play depicts how love and compassion of the Bishop brought about a change of heart in a convict and turned him into a man of promise for a good life.
The play revolves around a story that brings forth the themes of religious virtues like love and redemption. The Bishop was a kind-hearted man who being a true Christian was also an ardent humanist.
One night when the Bishop was about to go to bed, a convict entered the house. At the point of his knife he demanded food from the Bishop. He called Persome and asked her to give some supper to the convict. Persome treated the convict with all love and respect as he regarded him too as a sufferer. The convict told the Bishop how he was caught by the police while he stole some food for his ill and starving wife. The authorities did not paid any heed to the fact that he had stolen only to feed his ill and starving wife, Jeanette. They regarded him as a born criminal and treated him like a beast for ten years.
Then one day he escaped but the society treated him no better. The kind Bishop was touched and gave him a bed to sleep on. The Bishop went to sleep. Left alone on his bed, the convict could not resist the temptation to steal the silver candlesticks of the Bishop. He took them and went out of the house. As he went out, the door slammed. Persome got up at the sound and found out that the convict had stolen the silver candlesticks and had gone away. Persome reacted violently. She shouted and was very upset. The Bishop was sorry to lose the candlesticks as they were given to him by his mother. But the convict was arrested by the gendarmes along with the candlesticks. The sergeant saw the convict moving stealthily and arrested him. They recognized the candlesticks of the Bishop and brought him back to him. But the Bishop told that the accused was his friend and that he himself had given the candlesticks to him. The police sergeant released the convict and went away. The artists who performed in the play were Manoj Kumar Lalotra, Aarti Devi, Simran Singh, Adil Khan, Bhrigu Sharma and Manavdeep Singh.
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