A Hindi play ‘Red Frock’ was staged on the second day of Madhya Pradesh Rangotsav. The play was staged here on Thursday at Antrang Hall, Bharat Bhavan.
Directed by Ashish Pathak, Red Frock was presented by Samangam Rang Mandal, Jabalpur. “This is the second show of Red Frock, we are presenting before the Bhopalites.
Earlier, we presented this show at the 7th complete theatre festival in the month of February.” He further said, “We received a huge response by the Bhopalites in February and this is the reason we decided to stage it again.”
The play shares a tender love relationship between a father and a daughter. It describes the emotions and worry of the father towards fulfilling all the dreams of the daughter and it also showcases the dutiful nature of a daughter towards her father.
The play was a combination of drama, narration and music altogether and was fascinating the audiences to watch the play all-through. Further, Red Frock was staged beautifully showing the various adversities in life of a human being.
The story surrounds the desire of a small girl to have a red frock on her birthday. Her father promises her to get the frock, but struggling with daily life adversities, the father could not fulfill her desire. The years pass by and the little girl is left with the unfulfilled desire. She sometimes used to express her grief for not having a red frock.
Now the girl is getting married, she stills have a desire for the red frock. The girl is upset as she is leaving her home and the father presents her the ‘Red Frock’ she always dreamt of, as a good-bye gift.
The play was a whirl of tender love, emotions and hearty desires. The artists of the play maintained to capture the interest of the audience. It wonderfully showed the voyage of a small girl turning into a woman and yet is captured by the childhood desire. The audiences were spell-bounded with the performance of the artists and appreciated the play as well.