Artistes enact a scene from the Persian play If You Travel among Tehran One Night at Kala Vikash Kendra in Cuttack. Picture by Badrika Nath Das
Cuttack, Sept. 9: Asorik, a theatre troupe from Iran, recently presented a Persian play at Kala Vikash Kendra, which is hosting the Indian Theatre Olympiad's silver jubilee edition organised by the Utkal Yuva Sanskrutik Sangh in Cuttack.
The play titled If You Travel among Tehran One Night tells the story of a man, who suffers from mental disorder after an entertainer dies while performing at his daughter's wedding party. The protagonist Toghrol develops behavioural problems feeling guilty about the mishap as the entertainer Siahbaz was suffocated by guzzling paper money.
'The play was interesting when Toghrol's wife tries to help him come back to normal life,' said Pradip Sahu, a theatre enthusiast.
Toghrol's wife consults many doctors, physicians, medicos and exorcists. But unfortunately, they fail to help to him. Finally, she decides to cure him by psychodrama, in which she performs various roles every night and asks her husband to help her.
She moves out of the city along with her husband to avoid the people's disrepute and lives in a wooden cottage in the middle of grassland.
On September 5, a theatre troupe, Sun in 12th, from Argentina presented a Spanish play titled Raised by My Moon. Twelve actors on the stage played each of the lunar attributes.
'It was a classic example where astrology mingled with theatre. A poetic and theatrical journey where the audience went through a spiritual experience,' said Kartik Rath, dramatist and the Sangh's general secretary.
'The drama gave a lunar experience by dwelling on the unconscious and exploring the emotions,' Rath said.
On September 1, another troupe from Belgrade, Drama Studio Znakovi, presented a play Lost and Found, which is about problems in Serbia's urban life.
This year, troupes from Bangladesh, Morocco, South Africa, Nepal, Mexico and Brazil have taken part in the festival.
Indian Theatre Olympiad, a national and international festival of drama, dance and music, is organised in Cuttack in September every year with the support of the department of tourism and culture and the district administration.
