French and Japanese play at 8th Theatre Olympic

From

French

and

Japanese

to Marathi and

Bengali

, the 8th

Theatre

Olympic saw four plays in different languages recently.

Attends, Attends, Attends... (Pour Mon Pere): A French solo performance, this play by Jan

Fabre

is an appeal from a son to his father to be patient. The play, inspired by the life of Cédric Charron, a dancer with whom Mr. Fabre has worked closely, explores the art of postponing. The play was staged at Shri Ram Centre.

A scene from French play Attends, Attends, Attends

The plays explores the art of postponing

The Restaurant Of Many Orders: Inspired by Japanese fairy tale writer, Kenji Miyazawa’s novel by the same name, the play is a dance-drama production. The multilingual play is a tragic-comedy, directed by Hiroshi Koike, which was staged at Kamani Auditorium.

A scene from the tragic- comic play The Restaurant of Many Orders

Mere Gaadi Waale Dheere Gaadi: A bilingual Marathi-Hindi play by Sunil Ginhe is presented as a ‘Bharud’, a popular folk form in Maharashtra.

Bharud

is not only entertaining but also spiritually educative with its theatrical, witty and musical qualities.

Folk artists performing Bharud

Deyal Likhon: A Bengali play by Asit Basu, set in the early 1930s, was originally written in German by Friedrich Wolf and translated in Bengali by Utpal Dutta. The play tells the story of an eminent Jew surgeon in Germany, Dr. Mamlok who commits suicide after his pride takes a hit under the Nazi rule. The play was staged at Abhimanch.

Deyal Likhon, a Bengali play by Asit Basu
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