What if someone is sent back to his past only to discover himself all over againIJ Well the play ‘One By Zero’ took the audience into a totally different world.
The play One By Zero was staged on Monday marking the fifth day of Navagat Theatre Festival. The play was performed at Shaheed Bhavan Auditorium leaving the audience enthralled.
The mind-cracking play is an adaptation from the short science fiction story ‘All You Zombies’ written by Robert A Heinlein. The story is all about the time travelling and the adventures about time travel.
The bilingual play was directed by Shubham Parekh from Rajasthan. It was spectacularly staged by the students of Madhya Pradesh School of Drama (MPSD). It was performed in Hindi and English languages.
Written in early seventies, the play was just 95 minute long.
It begins with young man speaking to the narrator who is a bartender. The man is a writer, he tells the bartender that he will narrate him the best story of his life.
One the other hand, the Bartender is a secret detective. He asks the young man to help him take the revenge of an ill-fated incident that happened to him in past. What follows was a series of time travels.
The play was beautifully presented and received much appreciation by the audience.
On Monday, another play ‘Samjhauta’ marked the fifth day of the festival.