Sutradhar's Oleanna — a reflection on academic power play

With changing dynamics of the student-teacher equation, our education system is marred with incidents of academic power play and reflecting on such incidents, city-based theatre group

Sutradhar

staged a play titled Oleanna, based on David Mamet’s two-character play by the same name at

Ravindra Bharathi

recently. Directed by Prof

Bhasker Shewalkar

, the play revolves around a university professor played by Vinay Varma and a female student played by Supriya, who accuses the professor of sexual exploitation. Varma and Supriya’s commendable performances kept the audience glued to their seats and were later rewarded with a thumping applause