The quality and substance in the drama making process has quadrupled in the city; in terms of the story, sets and actors.Experimentation is the flavour of the season and the audience love it.
Ek Akhari Baar, presented by Anonymous theatre group made wondeful use of music to create a dramatic element, it did feel like drama-come-alive.The props and the set looked ingenious with the use of a doll’s house, swords, the box and Greeco-looking-pillars. If you have seen the film, “The Illusionist” casting Edward Norton, yesterday’s play may leave the film behind. Tricks like, when a doll is put in a box and a girl appears in it after the snap of a finger. One of the actor pull’sup a volunteer, puts her in a box, uses swords through the box, and lo, the girl appears on the other end of the auditorium, standing at the gate is unbelievable!
The play is a story about a magician who wants to become someone and is in search of true magic. The backdrop of the story is magic but asks you not to give up even if something goes wrong.
The actor also made one of the cast sit in the audience and waved at him making full use of the dramatic space. Such techniques blur the lines between the artist and the audience. For example, one of the character comes strutting behind from the other end in a stick.
The use of soundtrack is just awesome. The stunts when the character puts a sword in his throat is surreal but real, it gave me goosebump while watching it. The playmakers want to leave the audience guessing about ” how to transport a man”. The group used a unique drama making process, after writing the plays a year and half back, the directors did not hold any audition but handpicked the actors after watching most plays of Puruhsottam Karandak and Firodiya Karandak.ou do not want to miss more of the featival and theatre group!
The directors and script writers: Shriniwas Patwardhan, Soumitra Thorat
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