Women empowered through Theatre
The National
Theatre Festival is back with a bang in the city with eminent groups of
the country participating with plays essentially being directed by
women.
As part of the Bihar Diwas celebration, the
department of art, culture and youth affairs, in collaboration with
Bihar Sangeet Natak Academy, is organizing the five-day festival. The
festival, which was inaugurated on Saturday by the minister of the
department concerned, Sukhda Pandey, is organizing the event to
highlight women empowerment. It is basically a 'Mahila Natya Utsav'.
"All the four plays scheduled to be staged from Monday to Wednesday and
the three others which were staged on Saturday and Sunday have been
directed exclusively by women. This has been done to portray women
empowerment as this year, the theme of Bihar Diwas is women
empowerment," said secretary of Bihar Sangeet Natak Academy Vibha Sinha.
"Women theatre activists, including director from across the country,
are participating in this unique festival, probably for the first time
in Bihar," said Sinha.
The two plays staged on Saturday - Mohan
Rakesh's 'Adhe Adhure' and 'Menka', based on Homen Worgohen's novel
'Matsyagandha' were directed by Patna's Sharda Singh and Assam's
renowned theatre personality Pakeeza Begum, respectively, said Sinha. On
Sunday, Kolkata's director Usha Ganguly and her dedicated team members
of Rangkarmee group presented the play - Hum Mukhtara - a theatrical
interpretation of the Mukhtar Mai story that doubles up as a symbolic
tribute to the courage of Mukhtar Mai who was raped and killed in Delhi
in December last year. "I do not seek revenge, I am not cowed down by
terror, all I seek is justice," says Mukhtar, again and again, echoing
the angry voices of the women who are still crying out against the gang
rape and killing of a young student, Nirbhaya, in Delhi. Mukhtar Mai is a
woman unto herself. She is also a symbol that represents all women
across the world who have been victimized by violence.
Other
plays which will be staged on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday are Sarika
Pendse's Swami Vivekanand. Pendse is from Nagpur. While New Delhi's
Tripurari Sharma will present her play Roop Aroop on Tuesday and on the
last day, Kerala's Jyotirmayee's play -- 'The Chair' -- and Nadira
Babbar's play 'Yarana Baddi' will be staged.
Most of the plays
are fascinating not only in presenting a universal tribute to women
everywhere, but also in the way the directors have used every strategy
of theatrical performance to make a strong statement.
source:TNN
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