This musical play gets interactive in Lucknow

A scene from the play (BCCL/ aditya Yadav)

Many initiatives by various theatre artists have been attempted in the past to break the divide between the performers on stage and the audience. The Clown’s Cry for the Moon was one such play staged in the city recently at Sangeet Natak Akademi,

Gomti Nagar

. Through the play known director-actor VK Sharma wanted to showcase the story of a little girl named Gudiya, who, due to lack of friends, starts having a conversation with different characters that are purely an imagination of her own mind.

A scene from the play (BCCL/ aditya Yadav)

Sayed Hamid Jafar, Ashima and Bibek Singh (BCCL/ aditya Yadav)

VK Sharma, who started this initiative (of going about the country and showcasing this play, 32 years ago, said, "This play is very

interactive

. During the course of the story, the audience learns a couple of dialogues and songs from the play. It has very well-known characters like the scarecrow,

humpty dumpty

, monkey,

crocodile

, spiderman, fox, etc, which people are already familiar with. We have specially tried to make the audience participate in this story telling as there are sequences wherein the audience is expected to come on stage and recreate 4-5 scenes from the play. Our motive behind this is to give the audience the confidence to perform impromptu on stage."

Kulwinder, Manmeet (R) Ranjeeta, Simran (BCCL/ aditya Yadav)

Remi & Nikhar Bhatia (R) Shabib & Akiza (BCCL/ aditya Yadav)