After Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s urge, the theatre artists of the city have stood up together to help the victims of the Kashmir flood. Under the initiative, a play Ek Aur Damini would be staged here on Wednesday at Shaheed Bhawan Auditorium.
The event is organised by Youngs Theatre Group (Artist and Cultural Foundation), Bhopal in collaboration with Muslim Rashtariya Manch (Cultural Cell) Madhya Pradesh. Notably, the event is organised with an initiative to help the people severly affected by flood in Kashmir.
Further, this play is dedicated to Damini rape case and to all the females who go through the similar situations and struggle to overcome the nightmare.
While talking about the play, secretary of the theatre group, Prakash Mishra said, “Youngs Theatre always works for the betterment of the society and to bring into light the social evils that harming the people around. Ek Aur Damini is one of the productions of Youngs Theatre that highlight the major social evil ‘rape’ prevailing in the society and harming the self respect of women.”
Written by a noted playwright of the city Yogesh Tripathi, the play describes the pain and grief a girl goes through. The play is an adaptation of a true incident that happened at Satna. Earlier the play was known as ‘Manji’, but after the Delhi case some manipulations were done in the scenes and named it as Ek Aur Damini. As many as 26 artists will perform on stage in which some artists will perform for the first time.