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Two plays staged in Jammu Youth Theatre Festival 3/29/2015 11:59:06 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Mar 29 : Two major plays featured on the second day of 'Jammu Youth Theatre Festival' organized by Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Jammu and North Zone Cultural Centre, Patiala jointly at the Auditorium of Govt College for Women Gandhi Nagar, Jammu. Mind-blowing themes and innovatively designed and directed, these vibrant plays were presented by the students of Government SPMR College of Commerce and Govt. MAM College who were trained and groomed under the able guidance and direction of Ravinder Sharma and Abhishek Bharti respectively. These plays were produced in an intensive theatre workshops organised by ICCR and NZCC jointly to encourage and train new talent in theatre. The first play of the day was 'Final Solutions', an award-winning play written by Mahesh Dattani was directed by Ravinder Sharma, the play focuses on the issue of communalism, an issue that has continued to resonate with the Indian society for a long time now. The story covers several decades of communal disharmony, beginning with the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan and shifting its focus to the present day communal strife. It explores the varying lives and attitudes of three generations of a Gujarati family belonging to the urban middle class. The interplay of the characters highlights the religious bigotry and the stereotypes of religious identity that are highly prevalent in India, more so among the Hindus and the Muslims. The play highlights tolerance as the only clear and positive solution to such mindless strife - a solution that is highly relevant to all communal conflicts around the world. The second play 'Gagan Damama Bajyo' written by Puesh Mishra and Directed by Abhishek Bharti was based on the life and ideology of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, the play highlights the fact that though the British rule has ended yet another form of tyranny has begun.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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