Pankaj Sharma presents ‘Yeh Meri Wife Hai’
Lalit Gupta
JAMMU, Jan 18: After enthralling performances of drama groups from Amritsar and Hissar, the third day of the ongoing Theatre Carnival was marked by a solo play in Hindustani titled ‘Yeh Meri Wife Hai’, at the Abhinav Theatre, here today.
Presented under the banner of Natraj Natya Kunj, the solo play written, directed, and enacted by Jammu’s senior actor Pankaj Sharma, came as a test of the actor’s conviction and talent.
In the 50 minutes performance, the solo actor begins as a narrator and unfolds the saga of the ups and downs of his own matrimonial life. How he enjoyed a blissful relationship with his wife. But in course of time with the expansion of family and increasing financial responsibilities, the love, affection, and care for each other were transformed into bitterness and resentment for each other.
Taking the audience through a roller coaster of emotions, the play ends with the husband realizing that it was his inflated ego that stopped him to see the dedication of his wife towards him and her family.
The symbolic set with wooden door frames with labels like Bed Room, Kitchen, and Drawing Room, provided the freedom to spectators to visualize the props and setting of the household according to their respective imaginations.
Right from the opening scene, Pankaj Sharma by his direct address to the audience successfully transcended the ‘fourth wall’ that otherwise separates the ensemble actors from the spectators. He, as a solo actor using a mixture of skills such as narration, physical expression, character work, and dialogue, exhibited a great deal of mental and physical focus. However, he came to a tad short of the energy level required to fully engage the audience. Nonetheless, it goes to his credit to bring the format of a single actor on stage and put oneself all alone on the firing line.
Tomorrow, the fourth performance of the theatre carnival will be Jammu-based Samooh Theatres’ Hindi play Chitta Singh, under the direction of Ravinder Sharma.
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