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Stimulating Visuals and sounds

In an attempt to recapture Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”, a short 20-minute trailer was staged at Ranga Shankara, put up by participants of Neeraj Kabi’s summer theatre workshop. Shakespeare’s “shortest tragedy” w ith a heavy historical background, takes the ground floor in complete darkness with dark sounds and sights in a midnight performance.

In a torrent of deafening, catchy drum beats and shadows dancing in the dark, the colours red, black and white begin to loom large.

Stark-white masks and young adolescents in black tights and tops and as puppets present a series of extended body movements and grimaces. It was visually and aurally stimulating, but failed to convey any link to the original play. It was an interesting experiment and production of the one-week workshop in using costumes, props and sounds. But to explore it as a full-fledged play, then it will be a difficult performance to comprehend. Neeraj did not help the curious audience either, when he threw their questions back at them only saying that this was meant to be a late-night performance.

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