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Drama fete gets under way

BERHAMPUR: The eighteenth South Orissa Drama Festival was inaugurated in the Kavisurya Rangamanch of the city on Sunday evening.

According to Satya Maoharana, the member of the organising committee it would be an eight-day-long event, which would continue till Jan 11. The organisers have decided to honour around ten prominent stage activists of south Orissa during this drama festival.

Five selected plays from different amateur theater groups of south Orissa would take part in this festival of theatrics. But the inaugural evening of the drama festival was made attractive by a play enacted by ‘Uttara Purusha’ a prominent amateur drama troupe from Bhubaneswar. They enacted the play ‘Moha’ written by Sahitya Akademi award winner playwright Sankar Tripathi.

This play depicted the subtle lust and desires that remain hidden in all of us. The story was about three blind beggars in Puri. One of them happened to be a girl. Among the two male beggars one was quite educated. But the other blind beggar was in love with the girl. Through an NGO this group got chance where one of them could get the gift of sight through a donated corona. After much thinking the couple in love decided to allow the educated youth get back his sight. But after getting back his sight the educated youth for the first time started to realise the power he had over his blind friends and the scope of exploitation he had over them. His first test of power was to rape the blind girl who had advocated sight to be granted to him rather than to her. The emotional background music of the play was composed by music director Binay Rath, while Kedar Apta was the master craftsman behind the intricate stage craft for the play, which depicted the Lions’ gate area of Puri.

Among the participants of the drama festival the Priya theater group of Jeypore from Koraput district would be a major attraction. It had bagged the award of best play the last south Orissa drama festival. They are to enact a play named ‘Nishabda’ this time. Natyashree Kala Mandir, a theater group formed to honour 84-year-old veteran theater activist Natyashree Raghunath Mishra would enact a play written by this veteran ‘Bhinna Mana’.

Bharati Kala Niketan of Jharigaon of Nowrangpur district would display an experimental play ‘Chala Ame Mrutyu Khojiba’.

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