As a romantic comedy, Malavikagnimitam features three delicate feminine characterizations and an active Vidushaka (jester) who helps the hero in his amorous exploits, but at the same time, makes witty and critical obseravationsof the situation. Well-structured and theatrically strong, the play seems to be the earliest amongst Kalidasa’s three surviving plays.

Malavikagnimitram was performed from the 9th to the 12th of November 2005 at Bahumukh Auditorium under the direction of Shri K.S. Rajendran.

Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet is one of the most popular plays written by William Shakespeare. It is centered on the deep and passionate love that develops between Romeo and Juliet, the children of two enemy clans. A twist in events leads to both the lovers killing themselves and the tragic tone is paramount in the depiction.

This play was performed for a week, from the 24th to the 29th of March, 2006, at Muktakash (Open Lawn) of NSD premises under the design and direction by Rob Clare.

Katha Chaupal
The play was based on four different short stories ‘Shabyatra’, ‘Lal Pan Ki Begum’, ‘Gulki Banno’ and ‘Bharat Bhagya Vidhata’ written by Shrikant Verma, Phanishwar Nath Renu, Dr. Dharam Veer Bharati and Nrihashing Rajpurohit respectively.

The performances were held on the 5th , 7th and 8th of May 2006 at Sammukh auditorium under the guidance of Prof. Devendra Raj Ankur.

Katha Mikky Chakubaz Ki
The play is based on Bertolt Brecht’s Three Penny Opera ( Die Dreigroschenoper, 1928), an adaptation of John Gay’s ‘The Beggar’s Opera’ (1928) with music by Kurt Weill. The plot is basically the same as ‘The Beggar’s Opera’, although little of the original text remains and the setting is more contemporary, i.e. the 19th Century.
The story is that the robber Macarth, by marrying Polly Peachum, incurs the wrath of Polly’s father, the King of Beggars, who plans to have him arrested. But the chief of the police, Tiger Brown, is an old boyhood friend of Macarth and is hesitant to arrest him. Macarth however, is betrayed by a prostitute and arrested at his favorite brothel. Soon after that he escapes from jail with the help of Brown’s daughter, Lucy, whom he has assured of his love. Now Peachum’s threat to spoil a royal procession through the city by sending hoards of beggars in its path forces Tiger Brown to act. Once again Macarth is arrested at the same brothel, condemned to death, and sent to the scaffold. At the last movement a massage arrives with the queen’s pardon and the promise of a pension to Macarth. The novel attempts to reveal how, at the basic level, the bourgeois and the criminals are all one of a kind, all the same.
The play was performed on 3 evenings, from the 27th to the 29th of December 2005, at Abhimanch Auditorium under the direction of Shri. Robin Das.