Critically acclaimed plays staged at 8th Theatre Festival in Delhi

During the ongoing Theatre Festival four plays were staged on March 17, 2018.

Bhaanaka
The multilingual play by director

Piyal Bhattacharya

is based on the instruction and sequence of performing a Natya, as codified by Bharata Muni in ‘Natyshastra’. The performance of Bhaanaka is followed by a short-piece of bridging presentation, called Vedan.

Bhaanaka


Atthoi
This Bengali play by Arna Mukhopadhyay is an adaptation of

William Shakespeare

’s ‘Othello’ and tries to analyse the socio-cultural scene where the lower strata is oppressed by the upper class.

Athhoi

Thanglha (a tale of cold desert)
Directed by Anup Baral, this Nepali play is a tale of polyandry in the family and conflict between an individual’s freedom and the culture and society he or she lives in the Himalayas.

Thangla

Julius Caesar

, Spared Parts
Another play adopted from Shakespearean tragedy, this Italian production by famed director

Romeo Castellucci

highlights the clash between the ethereal and the obscure. It also deals with the conflict between fathers and sons, and with the power of rhetoric, seen as a sign of strength and decadence. (Chahumukh; 7:00 P.M.)

Julius Caesar