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Children drama festival held

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Students of Utkal Bidyapitha enacting the play ‘Naba Badhu’ at the Sisu Natak Utsab organised by Anya Drusti in Berhampur on Sunday. —

BERHAMPUR: With an aim to bring children in the forefront of disseminating message of social reform, a youth theatre group ‘Anya Drusti’ organised a children’s drama festival in the city on Sunday.

For the young participants and the audience the Sunday turned into a fun day at Kavisurya Rangamanch. Troupes from six high schools in the city and its suburbs participated in this drama festival. They enacted small plays of 45- minutes durations. The teachers of the school were script writers, directors and music composers of the plays.

President of ‘Anya Drusti’, Somnath Behera said they tried to judge how best the children had gone into the garb of the characters and the problems depicted in the scripts. The play ‘Brahmani Akhire Luha’ enacted by Old Berhampur High School was adjudged the best play of the drama festival. It was based on social stigma against women in society. Kartik Chandra Mohanty was adjudged best director for the play ‘Bhanga Kandhei’ by KC High School of the city.

Bharati Behera of Utkal Vidyapeeth Lathi was declared the best actor for her role as the main protagonist in the play ‘Naba badhu’, which was based on marital problems faced by a newly-wed in a joint family.

The best actor of this children’s drama festival was Prasanta Kumar Pratinidhi who was part of the team from Old Berhampur High School. A play ‘Satyara Pathe’ enacted by only girls Satyabadi High School of Krupasindhupur was based on degradation of Gandhian values in present times. Students of Madan Mohan high school of Girisola tried to show how superstitious beliefs coexist along with modernity in their play ‘Laxman Rekha’.

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