Play 'An Enemy of the People' staged at JKK

The three-day 'Young Director's Theatre Festival' at Jawahar Kala Kendra concluded with staging of the play 'An Enemy of the People'. Originally written by

Henrik Ibsen

, the two hours long play was based on an adaptation by the renowned poet and writer, Nemi Chandra Jain.

The satirical play directed by

Yogendra Singh Parmar

revolved around Abhay Kumar, the protagonist, an honest man dedicated towards the good of the society and the country. He did a research on the water that comes in his locality and learnt that the water was contaminated. When he tried to bring this to the eye of the public, his brother Amalindu Kumar trapped him into the vicious circle of politics and media, declaring him the 'Enemy of the People'.

The play gave a strong message that the road to honesty and goodness is not easy. And if one wishes to live with truth and honesty in this world, he has to live every moment as an 'Enemy of the People'. This is the bitter truth of the play and the society.

The cast was played by Mahmood Ali, Sanket Jain, Aayushi Dixit, Pooja Sahay, Maan Madan, Rajesh, Nikhil Sharma, Sandeep Mishra, Kamlesh Bairwa, Gaurav Soni, Nirav Vishnoi, Vipin Chaudhary, Dharmendra Prajapati, Sagar Khan and Virendra Solanki.

Picture credit: Shalini Maheshwari