Chekhov once more
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Diploma students of Drama Art recently started a profound performance series of world great playwrights in Varanasi. Starting with Anton Chekhov, they are trying to unfold the myth of Sisyphus with Albert Camus, writes GAUTAM CHATTERJEE
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Anton Chekhov.
AFTER COMPLETING one hundred years of his absent presence, Anton Chekhov was remembered in Varanasi recently with his letters, stories and plays. Now Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith University is honoured as the first in Uttar Pradesh and fifth university in India, where the studies in Drama Art is positioned academically as diploma and degree courses under the Department of Performing Arts. The diploma students felt the relentless presence of playwrights like Chekhov, Camus, Becket and Sartre after their deaths, and decided to remember them with performance, with their constant creatively tortured minds in quantum.
Chekhov died in 1904. What we lived during this death centenary was his virtual presence, was the main paragraph of the performed event. Students Amitabh, Princi, Arvind, Balmukund, Pushpa and Manoj read his last story "The Bride", written in 1903, with action. Before that, a student with the writer's make up and accent read two significant letters. While performing the story, the students emphasised on the gloomy mood of the writer.
Black Comedy
"Chautha Addhyay" (Fourth Chapter) was the next production performed by the students. This black comedy touches the problem of man-woman relationship and female foeticide. Chekhov readers said on this occasion that though filmmakers like Kumar Shahani portrayed Chekhov's accent as the voice of mockery but actually a sad "a priori" always followed the writer. The next presentation by the young artists was of Albert Camus.
His well-staged play "Caligula" was the main focus in the light of post modernism. The sane and hypersensitive mind of Caligula with histrionics unfolded the all-inclusive pulsation, where the "Myth of Sysiphus" is introduced as the ever-present catharsis.
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