This is what Marx says in his eassy The Eighteenth Brumaire of Luis Bonaparte”. The daughter of Indra, torn between vitrolic reasoning and the gentle voices of angles that bring with them the messege of hope and love.”This puppet play was directed by Michael Meschke in 1996. Servant Yasha played by Sarfaraz Ali Mirza. Two plays by the National School of Drama were staged recently. They have feet for walking but no wings. Later in the play, Mefisto as the sutradhar, orders Mahatma Gandhi to come as the next witness to life as he described it. The play is difficult to enact with all its mythological characters that have universal names and characters like Opera dancers, party dancers, hawayeins and monsters. The first year students presented August Ka Khwab based on August Strindberg’s A Dream Play.

“Men make their own history”, says the director in his note on the play.Chekhov’s another play, Uncle Vanya, was also enacted in the same area during the Bharangam 2016. The narrator and the protagonist was Mefisto, who in his initial speech from the top of a rotating step ladder, here he was climbing a net, “condemns humanity as a betrayer of ideals created by itself, as butcher and killer, knave and traitor”. There was Ankur Saxena Bashar who played the rich man, Lopakhin. Kunal, who has been writing for the stage and screen alike for quite sometime, has also done some original writing including, Che, the Land Weaver, Akk Amoli, Plastic Money and Bharat Milaap. Resignation! Yes this what I tried last, but if you put up with everything you have in the end to endure filth and humiliation, and that is what you have no right to do.. The way she climbed up the net was remarkable and so was Mahadev Singh Lakhawat who acted as August, an actor, police, lover and scholar. He has also adapted classics like George Orwell’s Animal Farm and Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream and Merchant of Venice. She comes to earth from heaven in the form of a beautiful woman to find out the complexity of humanity and their discontentment.

She is in love with Lopakhin who has all the money and comforts that she so desires.” Strindberg meditated suicide but he lived to write The Dream Play, inspired by Hindu philosophy and mythology. It is difficult to imagine these characters on stage. It was designed and directed by Suman Mukhopadhyay in the open lawn of the NSD campus. Yet, director Satyabrata Raut did a good job as he tries to realise the play in Hindi with performance text by Kuldeep Kunal.August Ka Khwab follows the journey of the central character, Agnes, the daughter of Hindu God Indra. The play begins with a monologue in which Strindberg wrote Mercedes-Benz ML-350 Grille these lines: “Life disgusts me and has always done so, everything is worthless! People are not born wicked but life makes them wicked, so life cannot be an education nor can it be a punishment (which improves). “In my opinion”, says the director, “it is so true and prophetic. Human beings are not good and nor are they evil. Suman has been doing TV series, short films and cineplays. As the iron rod puppet of Gandhi descends on stage, talking about peace, harmony and love and of non-violence and truth, screams Mefisto, the sutradhar: “what did the world do to him?

And when the gun shot booms and the once praying hands trun on each other, the enactment comes full circle. Debashree Chakraborthy as the mother, Ranevskaya was the star of the show. The character of Ignis was played by the very beautiful Indira Kumari, who was both subtle and flexible in her role. Debashree Chakraborthy as the mother, Ranevskaya was the star of the show.August Ka Khwab follows the journey of the central character, Agnes, the daughter of Hindu God Indra. It is simply an evil. The choreography by Vikram Mohan was quite good and Akash Gupta’s music composition was imaginative.This play was staged in September 1996 at the open air theatre in Dilli Haat in puppet form, by Marionetteatern Company. Then there was Debarati Sikdar who played the elder daughter, who was a sad face in the house where she has spent all her life. The second play, Waqt Guzar Jaata Hai, was staged by the final year students of the NSD. In the beginning she is hopeful that love will conquer everything. It is based on Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov. The idea to perform Cherry Orchard for final year students of the NSD, is from a long-preserved dream to work with a Checkov play.

But after she listens to the anguished cries of humanity, and experiences the pains of family life, she discovers that refromation will always be stifled by the self-righteous people. “But they do not make it under self-selected circumstances but circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past, the tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. She experiences the pain of being a human being.His internationally acclaimed play, Eklavya Uwach has been translated and performed in Kannada and Bangla. But the production lacked the dramatic intensity of either the Russian or Robin Das’ version of the Cherry Orchard done a couple of years ago. All these people tried to make this play a success but unfortunately they were crossed by the quality of the Russian play