From the popcorn seller’s eyes, the theatre lovers witnessed the reality of society. A solo act play ‘Popcorn’ was performed on Facebook Live Stream on Wednesday.
The play was performed playwright and actor Ashish Pathak. Admist lockdown, many artists are coming up with unique ideas to showcase their creativity. In the series an Online Youth Theatre Festival is being organised.
The theatre festival Rangdarshan Yuva Natya Samaroh 2021 is organised by Rangdarshan Cultural and Welfare Society, Bhopal. It is to be noted that the theatre festival is being organised in the memory of renowned theatre artist Vibha Mishra. The plays will be streamed on the Facebook page of Rangdarshan Cultural and Welfare Society.
The play begins with showcasing a railway station. The set of the play was huge and really beautiful. It looked like a real railway station on stage. Now, here enters the protagonist of the play the ‘popcorn-seller’.
The entire play moves around the popcorn seller and the way he has witnessed the different shades of society. He marks questions about the evils prevailing and why are they prevailing either.
The story begins with the popcorn-seller selling popcorns on a railway station. Every day he gives some popcorn to a mentally impaired woman, Tukia. One day, he gets to know that Tukia was raped by a fruit-seller whom he knows very well and wonders where this society is really headed.
As he came to know this, he tries to reason why a mentally sound man would rape a mentally ill woman and concludes everyone is living to fulfill their greed not needs.