Impact Arts & Theatre For Theatre in Collaboration with Punjab Sangeet Natak Akademi, Punjab Arts Council is organising the 6th Summer Theatre Festival, Shaguffe 2019 from May 8 to 10 at Punjab Kala Bhawan-16
Plays to be staged during the festival are:
May 8: Abhisarika
Writer: BalwantGargi
Director: Harmanpal Singh
Group: Stagecraft
Balwant Gargi portrays a woman who longs for two men at the same time. A divorced woman Ranjana works in a theatre group and gets involved with the director Pradeep. But gradually she begins to fall for Randheer, an actor in Pradeep’s theatre troupe and with whom she acts in the plays. At the end she reveals that she loves both the men at the same time with same passion. The play depicts how a tousled soul is torn between two tasks and stuck in the middle.
May 9: Satt Begane
Writer: Ajmer Aulakh
Director: Gurpreet Bains
Group: Theatre For Theatre
Satt Begane by Ajmer Singh Aulakh is a story about Bachana, who marries his beloved Jai Kaur, a girl from a different caste. Their marriage is not accepted by society. The play highlights the problem of society like the non-acceptance of inter-caste marriage and selling and purchasing of woman in villages.
May 10: Pehla Satyagrahi
Writer: Ravinder Tripathi
Director: Suresh Sharma
Group: National School of Drama
Pehla Satyagrahi is about the life and struggles of Mahatma Gandhi. This play is his Satyagraha (insistence for truth) story too. Gandhi was the world’s first Satyagrahi and the non-violent fight while insisting for the truth and justice he started in South Africa developed further in India, after he returned home. This play is the story of turning of Mohandas into Mahatma as well as the story of the independence of India.
At Punjab Kala Bhawan, Sector 16, 7 pm onwards
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