The background music acts as appropriate filler between scenes. The focus remains on an education that can be more redeeming than reductive.Ĭrates are used imaginatively in the set design - as desks and benches, as well as for the more symbolic moments in the play. Elle naît là où lapport de sable est faible et sous des vents unidirectionnels. The individual stories of the teacher, the students as well as the headmaster's are touched on in passing without any deliberate emphasis. Une barkhane ou barcane est une dune de la forme dun croissant allongé dans le sens du vent.
As the students clip their writings in the classroom and dates are changed to mark the passing days, the teacher with his own past, becomes eventually a figment of Bhadra's story. The teacher's ''iconoclastic'' approach is met with reluctance at first by the headmaster (Prasad Dagare) who later feels differently. Weighty texts like The Godfather are introduced with the hope that they may leave deeper impressions. It is their performance and their chemistry modulated by teacher Abhijit's (Arjun Radhakrishnan) interventions that make the production worthwhile. The group regularly meets at the village well for innocent camaraderie its depth and waters providing fertile imagination. Bhadra (Barkha Fatnani) has a talent for writing and stories. Vinit (Chirag Lobo) is the mischievous brat and constantly teases Paritosh about a fellow-student Prajakta (Heena Sharma). Paritosh (Varun Vazir) is the diligent student with an interest in Science. But his four friends apart from teasing him about his hygiene and his father are close-knit.Įach of these students has a spark. Barkha Fatnani has been an artist with Gillo Repertory theatre since 2015 and has performed in over 10 plays has been a drama facilitator with Gillo, as well as independently working with schools across Mumbai. The student Manya (Nikhil Modak) represents this entrenched, vicious aspect.
This is precisely what the play critiques, but in a classroom in rural India, where our society's structuring of caste and class dominates. The unfortunate among us may even be scathed for life while the lot of us just otherwise wades through this most respectable of early charades. The fortunate few among us may recall a more sensitive teacher or mentor. It is a sad fact that our education system is almost, always about marks and grades.
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