Play in English Bosnia Revisited
Intensity, emotion, great acting and a powerful script. Just the ingredients required to make a play successful. The Maharashtra Cultural Centre’s first English theatre production, ‘Mirad, a boy from Bosnia’. Hs all this and more.
Tnvee Shevade (19) and Sksham Kulkarni (17) are mere teenagers, but the intensity with which they have enacted the roles of Djuka nd Fazilla, a Bosnian refugee couple, will make its difficult for you to hold back the tears. The teenagers, in a short span of 95 minutes, manage to bring the horrors of the Bosnian civil war of the 90s to your doorstep.
The play is a collage of 14 scenes, which requires the two young actors to portray multiple roles. The ease with which the two teenagers flit between myriad roles is indeed commendable.
The actors, who play Mirad’s uncle and aunt in the play, narrate the horrors of the civil war through the eyes of Mirad.
The play is the English adaptation of the original German play, written by German playwright Ad de Bont. Young Pune theatre director and teacher, Darshan Naik decided to direct the play after the translation was sent to him by Andrea Gronmeyer, a noted theatre director from Germany.
Saksham, who has acted in Marathi films like Gautam Joglekar’s ‘Pak Pak Pakak’ and Meena Kulkarni’s national award-winning film ‘Shevri’, says, “The script was extremely difficult and challenging and I felt I had to do it.”
Tanvee has acted in several state-level plays and thinks the frequent shift in scenes was probably the toughest part of the play. “It is not easy to constantly switch on and off so rapidly."
Daarshan, who made his two young actors watch movies related to war like Spielberg’s ‘Schindler’s List’ and Bahman Ghobdi’s ‘Turtles can Fly’, is extremely happy with the outcome. “We worked very hard for 25 days. I am glad to see the actors giving off their best.”
Rahul Chnadwarkar
Tnvee Shevade (19) and Sksham Kulkarni (17) are mere teenagers, but the intensity with which they have enacted the roles of Djuka nd Fazilla, a Bosnian refugee couple, will make its difficult for you to hold back the tears. The teenagers, in a short span of 95 minutes, manage to bring the horrors of the Bosnian civil war of the 90s to your doorstep.
The play is a collage of 14 scenes, which requires the two young actors to portray multiple roles. The ease with which the two teenagers flit between myriad roles is indeed commendable.
The actors, who play Mirad’s uncle and aunt in the play, narrate the horrors of the civil war through the eyes of Mirad.
The play is the English adaptation of the original German play, written by German playwright Ad de Bont. Young Pune theatre director and teacher, Darshan Naik decided to direct the play after the translation was sent to him by Andrea Gronmeyer, a noted theatre director from Germany.
Saksham, who has acted in Marathi films like Gautam Joglekar’s ‘Pak Pak Pakak’ and Meena Kulkarni’s national award-winning film ‘Shevri’, says, “The script was extremely difficult and challenging and I felt I had to do it.”
Tanvee has acted in several state-level plays and thinks the frequent shift in scenes was probably the toughest part of the play. “It is not easy to constantly switch on and off so rapidly."
Daarshan, who made his two young actors watch movies related to war like Spielberg’s ‘Schindler’s List’ and Bahman Ghobdi’s ‘Turtles can Fly’, is extremely happy with the outcome. “We worked very hard for 25 days. I am glad to see the actors giving off their best.”
Rahul Chnadwarkar
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