Students of Drama School Mumbai feature in the play

“When I told them about the adaptation, the students found it interesting. The original play is a well-crafted production, so we picked the roles from the story and tried to turn them into Indian characters,” she says. Agashe further mentions, “I focused on the Indian realistic style of acting. So, we wanted to know in detail how the everyday lives of the people go on; what they do on a mundane afternoon? Or what jobs they have? Hence, we visited a basti nearby where we observed their behaviour and then started writing the story.”

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The play has a brilliant list of poems by some prominent names in Hindi and Urdu poetry. “We came with the idea of inculcating poems while writing the story. For example, a stage actor who never got his break expresses his emotions through a poem. But we realised that sadness is not the only expression in life. So we tried to keep a mix of poetry works that would equally sum up life — a series of highs and lows.” The director explains that this is how they came around composing a song out of Faiz Ahmed Faiz poem, Kutte. “We will be opening the play with a song too,” she adds.

Agashe believes that it is important to tell these stories. “These performing actors mostly come from privileged backgrounds, where they have no idea how people who do not have the privilege of money live. I wanted to make a play where the audience along with the actors get to see more than what they usually see in their mundane lives,” she concludes.

On: Today and April 20; 5 pm and 8 pm
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