Club Literati like every year is organising The Bhopal Shakespeare Festival. Scheduled from April 21 to 24, the theme for 7th edition of this festival is ‘Shakespeare and the Brave New World’.
Marking the third day of the festival a storytelling competition 'The Winner's Tale',was held. The event was a full rollercoaster ride of emotions. The participants had to send their entries by April 21.
There were total 52 entries out of which the judges selected 3 top stories. The stories were required to have a quote of shakespeare and also to have a setting of the pandemic. The judges evaluated the stories on the basis of these two criteria along with the diction, flow of thought, character development, writing style and climax.
The moderator for the event was Bhaskar Indrakanti cofounder of orange owl percepts. He started the session by telling about storytelling and relevance of storytelling in Shakespeare's works.
The judges were Rashmi Rakheja, Shampa Malhotra and Swati Sharma.
The judges shared their experiences of reading the stories and said it was tough for them to mark them. The winners of the competition were 1st- Dr. Jaylaxmi Vinayak (Story- Beacon of Hope), 2nd- Agrima Shukla( story - She Finally Understood), 3rd- Navya Shamra ( Story- Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown)
A total of 50 people attended the session.
The fourth event of the festival ‘As You Like It’ will be conducted via the same media at 6 PM. Winners of the retelling of Shakespeare's scenes 'As You Like It' will be announced in this session.
All the events are open to public and constantly being updated on social media handles of the club.