The final year students of Madhya Pradesh School of Drama bid good bye to their academic session 2012-13 on Sunday.
A convocation ceremony was oragnised here at Ravindra Bhavan Auditorium where the students were given certificates and awards. Director of MPSD Sanjay Upadhyay, Cultural Secretary Bharat Bhavan Pankaj Rag and a renowned theatre artist Kamlesh Dutt Tripathi were present. Pankaj Rag distributed the awards and certificates to the final year students and Kamlesh Dutt Tripathi talked about the importance of theatres. He interacted with the students and wished them luck for the future endeavours.
Further, Shakespeare’s romantic comedy A Midsummer’s Night Dream, was also staged at the ceremony. Notably, this production was prepared with the final years students of MPSD.
The play is written by a great playwright William Shakespeare and is one of his early writings. Directed by a noted theatre artist and director Alok Chatterjee, the play was presented by the students of Madhya Pradesh School of Drama (MPSD).
The play is a romantic comedy that portrays three interlocking plots. All the incidents and events happen only in one night. Further, it portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors, who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set.
While taking to The Pioneer, director of the play Alok Chhatterjee said, “It has always been a pleasure to work on Shakespeare’s play. A Midsummer’s Night Dream was fun with the young students of MPSD as they were too very enthusiastic to stage this play.”
This play is a wonderful combination of romantic stories blended with comic incidents that also includes fantasy and fairy tales. It is a drama that showcases a world of dreams of four lovers and their confusions. The play was staged in double cast. Elaborating on double cast, Alok said, “It becomes difficult to stage Shakespeare’s play in single cast, but the students of MPSD managed to do it in double cast.” The play was like a feast for the theatre-goers. As the Shakespeare’s plays always demands a huge backdrop, sparkling costumes and correct body language. The artists managed to captivate the attention of the audiences and the lighting effect added more zeal in the performance.