Engaging short plays
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The plays reflected the modern-day society.
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SOCIAL CAUSE A scene from the play `Gandhi Park'.
As part of its project of encouraging theatre activity, the Visakha Music and Dance Academy featured two playlets, Gandhi Park and Santhakaala Sandadi in its auditorium Kalabharathi. Noted advocate, playwright and play producer, P.T. Madhav scripted and directed them for the Modern Theatre founded and headed by him.
The two short plays replete with satirical pun and punch in the dialogues, turned out to be quite humourous.
The first play was an attempt to create an awareness of the fact as to how public parks including those named after national leaders who personified ethics, virtue and love like the father of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi, have of late become havens for all types of illicit activity.
The second was a burlesque of sorts of the jugglery involved in getting signatures of witness and guarantee and so on in the legal profession.
The caustic criticism of the on going process that severely effects the lower strata of society coupled with the show of commensurably good talent by all actors, sufficiently sustained audience interest.
The playwright-director P.T. Madhav, M. Jagadeeswari, Sandhya Rani, V. Babuji, K. Appa Rao, S. Rama Mohana Rao, S. Venkat and S. Gangadhar constituted the cast.
Make-up by S.V. Rao, lighting by V.M. Rao, stage decor by V. Kesavasri, co-ordination by Y. Appaji and music by V.S.S. Murthy contributed to the grandeur. Interspersed in between the staging of the two plays, was a fascinating magic show presented by Kaja.
A.R.S.
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