Lalit Gupta
JAMMU, Feb 10: Nepal’s ‘Theatre Village’ presentation ‘The Confessions’ came out as a welcome experimental play where the audience experienced novelty in both form and content, at the Abhinav Theatre, here today.
A thoroughly political work charged with metaphorical power, today’s play staged as the ninth production of the ongoing international theater festival sponsored by Nutan Prayas Manch, in fact is the creative application of the Nepal’s ancient social practice of ‘Sabiti’, in which one accused of an allegation/misdemeanor presents his side of the truth called as ‘Sabiti’-the ‘Sat Bakna’ in local parlance.
Directed by young Bimal Subedi, alumni of National School of Drama, and adapted from late Jagdish Ghimire’s novel ‘Sabiti, the play was structured as a monologue. The main actor Anuradha Majumdar, as protagonist started with sharing her feeling claustrophobic in life. Walking under the overhanging cluster of blood and glucose transfusion bottles with their dangling lines, the protagonist, speaking dialogues in English and Hindi, through her metaphorical description of the experience and substance of vomit, the almost mechanical process of birthing and raising progeny- alludes to the drift from the undefined idealistic assumptions to something quite conventional and middle class and boring.
Marked with Anuradha Majumdar’s compact and competent performance and supported by strong visual design of the sets and lights, today’s short play came as fresh gush of air that left an impact for its avant garde content as well as style.
Tomorrow, Delhi’s theater group ‘Rangsaaz’ will stage ‘Chauthi Cigrette’ under direction of Danish Iqbal.
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