Keep the water flowing

Theatre Nisha’s play The Water Princess offers a strong message about water conservation

November 28, 2017 09:54 pm | Updated 09:54 pm IST - Puducherry

Four girls in the audience stormed towards the stage, shouting ‘water.’ They positioned themselves at four different points in the auditorium holding photographs depicting water, posing questions on who the waterman of India was, and asking the audience whether they have fought with anyone for water and what would be the best way to save water.

While the audience were still pondering over how much water they wasted and how unequally it was distributed, the girls took on the stage. Soon, the audience saw an angry water princess upset over water being misused.

She said she did not want to be canned and misused, and decided to leave the earth. Through music and songs, three clowns in the play try to appease the goddess of water to stay on earth.

The one-hour play depicted how water was being misused and what should be done to protect this precious resource.

As part of the third edition of Bonjour India 2017-18, a four-month long nationwide celebration of Indo-French relations, Theatre Nisha’s new production The Water Princess was being staged at the Alliance Francaise Auditorium in Puducherry on Sunday.

The hour-long play was written and directed by V. Balakrishnan, and performed by Roshini Sridhar, Shakthi Ramani, Aparna Kumar and Meera Sitaraman.

Celebrating ties

The play was staged as part ofi the celebration of the partnership between India and France through more than 100 multi-disciplinary projects, close to 300 events in 33 cities across 20 states and union territories of India.

Catherine Suard, Consul General of France in Puducherry, inaugurated the first Bonjour India event.

She said that Bonjour India was launched last weekend in Jaipur. Ms. Suardthanked the government and said that Puducherry will host the Indo-French sailing regatta competition at the end of January as part of the celebrations.

Alliance Francaise of Pondicherry president Lalit Verma was among those present on the occasion.

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