Nepal International Theater Festival marked it third day staging four plays at four different theaters in Kathmandu on Wednesday. Numerous national and international plays were staged to celebrate the grand occasion. Below are some of the brief descriptions of the plays:
To BE (Denmark): Theater Mall
‘To BE’ is a joyful and imaginative performance for the whole family about Human Rights. It proceeds in a nonverbal, funny and inventive Object Theater universe, where moments of comic and serious situations intimately interact with music and digital illustrations. The artist works at his table, where figures and objects emerge from the most unexpected materials. To BE is a hopeful performance about life and our right to a life in dignity.
Playwright/Director: Jacques Seferian Matthiessen
Group: Passepartout Theatre
Language: Non-Verbal
Duration: 40 minutes
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Chapter Confession: My father is a murderer (Nepal): Kausi Theater
"Chapter Confession: My father is a Murderer" is a narrative play where a newly appointed IGP (Inspector General of Police) of Nepal narrates her past trying hard to set her feet firmly at the present. This play depicts the IGP's relationship with her father and her twin brother during her childhood and adolescence and what shaped her up to be what she is today. It is not just a play but an experience - an experience of many fathers, daughters, brothers and sisters as a whole.
Director/Playwright: Patrika Ghimire
Group: Freelancer
Language: Nepali
Duration: 55 minutes
The Job (India): Mandala Theater
The job is a devised performance with clowning and physical comedy at its centre. It’s a story of four job aspirants trying to outdo each other and what follows is a hilarious set of events. It is a nonverbal devised performance with an underlying comment on the competitive culture of present times. Are you responsible for your choices? Are you willing to accept the changes that you effect on your life and of the lives of others around you? The objective of the play is to get people to come away with some deep understanding about the circle of life, but instead reflect upon our urban lifestyle.
Director: Hardik Shah
Group: Five Senses Theatre
Language: Non-Verbal (Gibrish)
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes
Champabati (India): Shilpee Theater
Champabati is a play about a woman from the community of snake–charmers. Her body is ravaged by the lewd advances of male desire that is treated badly. She questions the society ‘Why do you advance toward me in such an inhumane manner?’ Though being left out of her community, she has to offer her life to save her husband. Another woman, chained at home, starts to break away. She is up against the injustice of male power-structure played at home.
Production Playwright: Syd. Shamsul Haque
Director: Biplab Dey
Group: India (Ritwik)
Language: Bengali
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
