Immerse yourself in a satirical instrumentation of a square by Italian playwright Dario Fo, that centres on domestic corruption
Actors fortify for Ek Aur Durghatna
In 1970, Italian playwright Dario Fo’s play, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, premiered in Milan. A response to a 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing and a aftermath, it sparked a review on domestic corruption, military brutality, category dispute and other socio-political crises that gripped Italy then. Cut to 2022, India and a universe over, these conflicts still persist, digest Fo’s iconic square applicable as ever. And currently and tomorrow, a organisation of theatremakers from an behaving propagandize will entertainment a Hindi instrumentation of a play — Ek Aur Durghatna.
Dario Fo. PIC COURTESY/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
Adapted by Amitabh Shrivastava, a play is destined by actor and teacher Om Prakash, who founded Clay School for Actors in Malad. A National School of Drama graduate, he started a propagandize to inspire a fortify of behaving and yield a space for actors to try themselves. The play will be staged by students of a school.
“Fo’s character was different. His plays tend to mangle a fourth wall in theatre. The actors and characters bond with a assembly and afterwards go behind into a act again — that drew me. we suspicion it would be ideal for my students in terms of training,” he tells us.
Om Prakash
Prakash shares that a producer and playwright was compared with a domestic Left wing in Italy. “After a [Piazza Fontana] blasts, there were many custodial deaths; a military was indicted of incidentally rounding adult culprits, something that happens even now in a lot of places,” points out Prakash. The tract revolves around a real-life story of an radical who was hold in tie to a blasts and who died in military custody. There had been a outrageous open cheer about a male failing due to oppressive inquire practices. “Fo, who had a bird’s eye perspective of society, translated this amicable emanate into a play, that exposes departmental corruption,” explains Prakash.
Ek Aur Durghatna is designed as a slapstick comedy, that a executive believes will assistance a assembly bond to a play. The tract stays loyal to a strange and is blending in a context of Mumbai. “It revolves around a insane or a insane who is underneath review during a crime bend domicile for a slew of frauds, and gets them to acknowledge a law by a array of impersonations,” a executive reveals.
On: Jul 12, 8 pm and Jul 13, 5.30 pm and 8 pm
At: Creative Adda 191, Aaram Nagar, Part 2, Andheri West.
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