A Hindi play Sheeshe Ke Khilone was staged brilliantly at Bharat Bhavan on Friday.
The play was performed under guest performance. Directed by Govind Singh Yadav, Sheeshe ke Khilone is an urdu adoptation of the play The Glass Menagerie written by Tennessee Williams and adapted by Bilquis Zafeer ul Hasan. The play was performed by the artists of Dramatic Art and Design Association, New Delhi.
Aijaz is an aspiring poet who works in a factory to support his mother Nafeesa and sister Lubna who has a problem with one of her legs. Aijaz’s father had run away many years ago. Nafeesa asks Aijaz to find a match for Lubna. Aijaz brings home Amjad who had studied with Lubna in school.
Amjad reveals that he is already engaged to another girl, and leaves. After this Aijaz says he wants to join the merchant navy. Nafeesa is disillusioned by now. Lubna has been preserving glass dolls since her childhood. At some point her favourite glass doll is disfigured by Amjad.
Aijaz leaves home after this incident and arrives back in town after many years laden with guilt towards his mother and sister.
The play is beautifully written. It ask question about why God leave his creation alone in tough times. The way Lubna takes care of her glass menageries why the Almighty cant take care of his humans?
The audiences were spell-bounded with the solo performance of the artists.
The artists on the stage maintained to captivate the attention of the audiences as they burst out laughing on every event.