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Mesmerising Delhi's theatre lovers

Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar

Famous French play `The Melody of Love' to be staged at Kamani auditorium

NEW DELHI: Romantic comedy, "The Melody of Love", which is an international Broadway hit by the famous French playwright Marivaux, would be staged at Kamani Auditorium here on Monday in aid of the physically challenged persons. Supported by the Alliance Française de Delhi, the theatrical event is expected to be witnessed among others by the country's leading fashion names -- Rohit Bal, Sabyasachi, Nikhil and Rohit Gandhi.

The play, which debuted at the prestigious Comedie-Italiens in Paris, France on January 23, 1730, and ran until the summer of 1739, having 1,266 performances in Paris alone, is has now been translated and directed by Divya Arora, for whom it would mark her 22nd production.

A romantic comedy, the play is about two young persons who masquerade what they are now in order to examine their future life partners. This leads to various comic situations. With time emotions become strong and deep between the two and slowly as the masks drop off, they realise that they are both `mad about each other' and the initial forced marriage gets transformed into a desired union ... making them flow in the melody of love.

Hailed by reviewers as `tummy-aching romantic comedy refusing to let the audiences stop getting into constant hysterics of laughter', the success of the play had led to numerous performances in Europe and the Francophone countries around the globe in the succeeding centuries.

And now the play that has received standing ovations around the country, is ready to mesmerize the `romantic souls' and the theatre lovers in the Capital.

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