Theatre
lovers in the city are back to the auditoriums after the state government allowed reopening of these exhibition centres and rehearsal of theatre troupes. After around one year, they got to watch a series of plays staged at Rabindra Mandap this week.
People watched five plays in five evenings from different parts of the country in the 23rd
Kalinga Natya Mahotsav
organised by Satabdira Kalakara, a city-based theatre group. In this multilingual national
theatre festival
, plays from Assam, Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Patna and Bhubaneswar were staged.
On the very first evening, a Hindi play titled, Gagan Ghata Ghahrani, was staged by a Patna-based troupe. The Hindi play was written by Suman Kumar and directed by Sanjay Upadhyay. On the second evening, the organising troupe from the city performed a play that’s originally written by renowned Marathi playwright
Bijay Tendulkar
and translated into Odia by RK Banerjee. The play titled as, Eka Jidkhor Jhia, was directed by
Dhira Mallick
.
The third evening saw a Bengali play, Sappho Chitrangada, staged by a Kolkata-based theatre troupe. It was written and directed by Rakesh Ghosh. The penultimate evening was for Telugu play Madhuparkaalu that’s written by Velluru and directed by Gangotri Sai. The concluding play of the festival was Ghatatkoch Putra Mor, an Assamese play written by Mrinmay Bhuyan and directed by Gunakar Dev Goswami.
“Like every year, we held the multi-lingual national theatre festival and presented wide range of plays for our theatre lovers. Our aim has been to bring plays from various languages to one platform,” said Dhira Mallick, organizer.
"It was a good festival to watch varieties of plays at one platform. For theatre lovers, language doesn’t matter. I watched all the plays and enjoyed them well,” said Sudhir Nayak, a young theatre artiste.