The Drama School's students are performing a play based on Evgeny Shvart's storytellers
The Drama School raised hopes in theatre circle, not just because it has one of the finest faculty and guiding experience but also because it a ray of hope in the dwindling theatre industry. Last year's batch of students of The Drama School performed two classic plays by Moliere and Brecht respectively at venues across city. Now, the current batch is ready to showcase their talent on the professional stage.
The Young Turks
This year's batch has received sustained training over the past six months from Indian and international facilitators like Geetanjali Kulkarni, Yuki Ellias, Roo Jhala, Sunil Shanbag, Neeraj Kabi, Mahesh Dattani among others. The students will perform a play by Russian playwright Evgeny Shvart. Banned by the Post-War Stalin government for its anti-authoritarian themes, Shvart's biting satire is spun out of myth and lore. Translated by Harsh Khurana, it has been directed by Tushar Pandey.
About the story
A big, bad dragon has reigned over a town for 400 years and now has his eyes set on its loveliest maidens. Right on cue enters the knight in shining armour - a well-travelled young man who is on a mission to save the town and deliver the damsel from her tragic plight. But there's just one teeny tiny problem. They don't want to be saved! Shvarts borrows from fairytales and folklore to put together a comic conundrum about power and oppression that helps us understand how we as people seem to continue to feed the head that bites.
Layers to the plot
This new, extremely visual retelling in Hindi brings the best of The Drama School, Mumbai's theatre making practices together to answer a simple question in a highly exciting new production: Can our hero rescue the town from its draconian oppressor, or does the problem lie even deeper than that? "The Dragon has multiple narratives going on in it at any given time. To be able to both tell the conventional straight plot story and the multiple other plots - both visually and through the action - so that multiple strands of information are always coming off the stage to the audience, is a challenge that the students have been keen to take on," says Pandey.
When and Where: Tomorrow at Mumbai Marathi Sahitya Sangh, Girgaum from 7 pm
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