A play for the Kannada-speaking Shakespeare fan

From the Kannada play Prameelarjuneeyam makes use of music and actions from Yakshagana, the favored people dance type of Karnataka.  
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Puck, Oberon, Titania, Nick Backside are names that an ardent William Shakespeare fan will recall immediately. However can one think about these characters from his celebrated work, A Midsummer Evening’s Dream changing into Ashuga, Manmatha, Rati, Prameela and Arjuna. That is exactly what occurred within the Kannada play Prameelarjuneeyam, which was offered not too long ago on the Multi-Lingual Theatre competition at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in Chennai. 

With a need to carry glorious theatrical productions from throughout the nation for the Chennai viewers, this competition curated by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, has begun making a mark within the metropolis’s cultural calendar.

Natana Rangashaale’s Prameelarjuneeyam, directed by Meghasameera, primarily based on the interpretation of Shakespeare’s comedy play by M. L. Srikantesha Gowda in 1896, makes use of music and actions from Yakshagana, the favored people dance type of Karnataka.  

With a contact of comedy

The story is about in Mala Yala, the place princess Prameela, a warrior, after conquering Arjuna falls in love with him and prepares for his or her marriage ceremony. In the meantime, Kairave and Jayantha are in love, and so are Padmini and Vasantha. However Kairave’s father desires her to marry Vasantha, the boy he has chosen for her. Kairave decides to elope with Jayantha. She informs Padmini about her plans, who, together with Vasantha, follows them to the forest. At this level, Manmatha, Rati and Ashuga (Manmatha’s aide) enter the story. Manmatha tells Ashuga concerning the juice of Nilotpala flower, which might make an individual fall in love with whoever he/she sees on waking up within the morning. It leads to a comedy of errors because the lovers get interchanged. How the confusion will get resolved makes for some hilarious and entertaining twists and turns.

The set comprised material hanging within the 4 corners of the stage, with a throne positioned within the centre. These props had been used fantastically in several sequences. The material generally grew to become timber, pillars or ropes of a swing.

Actions of Yakshagana had been woven into the play in a seamless method, and the influence was enhanced with the presence of musicians on stage. The sensible comedian timing of the actors sustained the momentum until the final scene.

An intense Malayalam play

From Niyamavarthanam staged on the Multi-Lingual drama competition, organised by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Chennai.
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To create performs which are related but rooted appears to be purpose of the Kochi-based Rasa Theatre Collective, based by Sidharth Varma and Rahul Thomas. The group staged Niyamavarthanam on the competition.

The play revolved across the head of a Catholic household, the previous and visually impaired Appachan. His unshakeable religion within the establishment of church is in direct battle along with his daughter Lissy’s beliefs, who desires to terminate her second being pregnant. Attempting to appease each is Antony, the son-in-law. Lissy’s youthful sister Nancy, who has already excommunicated for ending her marriage, helps her.

The emotional battle between religion and ladies’s rights was dealt with nicely. The actors stored the viewers engrossed with their performances.

The ideas of religion and sin had been conveyed via a brilliantly conceived scene, the place Lissy is seen smearing water from a bowl over her arms and face as if symbolising purification. She shares the white fabric that she is sitting on together with her father, sending out the message that they’ve come to respect one another’s standpoint.

Delicate lighting, minimal props and intense performances had been the highlights of the play.