Donald Trump to Osama Bin Laden to The Joker, t2 got a glimpse of them all at the two-day Theatre Festival organised by The Bhawanipur Education Society College (BESC) on February 27 and 28 on the college campus and at Gyan Manch. More than 150 students from 11 colleges like iLEAD, THK Jain College, NSHM Knowledge Campus and J.D. Birla Institute (department of management) participated. There were nine events — Mono Acting (students were given a sentence to start their skit with), Short Filmmaking, Mime, Stage Play, Street Play, Ad Spoof, Picture Story (students created a sequence of photographs related to each other and forming a story), Boardroom Drama (teams were given different locations on campus to put up their skit in the space allotted) and Mimicry. 

“For us, theatre is just another non-conventional mode of education. We want to make the Theatre Festival bigger and better in the coming years,” said Miraj Shah, vice-chairman of BESC.

Boardroom Drama: Students of THK Jain College left everyone in awe with their skit based on a deranged killer and his brother. The team was allotted the college office, which became the setting for a prison. “We tried to think out of the box and used the space as a jail. We are glad that everyone liked our performance. A few of our team members got emotional while performing,” said Harsh Sharma (not in picture), a second-year English student, who played the role of the deranged killer.

MIMICRY: Prabhav Agarwal of The Bhawanipur Education Society College went “why so serious?” while mimicking Heath Ledger’s famous character, The Joker.

Text: Sulogna Ghosh 
Pictures: Arnab Mondal and Siddhant Jha