Hindi play Katha Auriyabad, staged by tiny tots of the city was an impressive experience for the theatre-goers of the city. Katha Auriyabad was staged at Shaheed Bhawan here on Sunday to mark the conclusion of a month-long theatre workshop.
Organised by Children’s Theatre Academy, Bhopal the workshop began here on May 1 to let the aspiring tiny tots be a part of theatrical activities.
Further, a two-day theatre festival was organised to mark the conclusion of the theatre workshop. On the first day of the fest, the story of Ramayana in ballet form was staged by the children that received a huge appreciation and applauses from the audience.
Directed by a noted theatre artist and director Vaishali Gupta, the play Katha Auriyabad was staged by a group of 65 children on stage. The struggle against corruption and to fight for the right was the essence of the story. Noticeably, the play is based on true incidents about farmers.
While talking to The Pioneer, Secretary of Children’s Theatre Academy Prem Gupta said, “This play is a collage of the real incidents that happened to the farmers and moreover, it is a question on the corrupt society of the country as why always the patience of common man is tested.”
The story revolves around a female social worker ‘Bhabhi’ who is a widow and work for the society to help the poor. As the corruption landed at their village Auriyabad, Bhabi raises her voice against it. All the farmers were facing crisis after selling their land to the industrialists and all the promises that were made to them were fake and false. The farmers did not get any profit out of and now all of them were left with no money, food and shelter.
Bhabhi being the supporter of the right raise her voice against all the corrupt officials and fight against them all alone. later, the females of Auriyabad joined hands with her and start the struggle against the corruption. But, what happens after that formed rest of the story. The audiences were awestruck to watch the children performing over such serious issue with a lot of enthusiasm. The children were able to grab the applauses of the audience and appreciation.
Before the play, the children who learnt theatre music presented their show before the Bhopalites as Rang Sangeet. Children performed their composed songs leaving the audiences mesmerised.