PU Theatre Play “Beyond Smile”
Vinay Kumar
Chandigarh
The Annual Production “Beyond Smile” of
Department of Indian Theatre, Panjab University, Chandigarh, was
inaugurated by Prof. Shankarji Jha, Dean University Instruction,
here today at the Studio- Theatre of the Department. The play will
also be on 8th and 9th May, 2018 as well at 6.30 pm. ‘Beyond Smile’ depicts a plethora of humanitarian
Crisis across the globe. It portrays the crisis of Syrian civil
war, Rohingya Refugees, farmers suicide and violence against women in India. The play explored the malevolent side of
human and compels us to think where we are heading. Prof.
Navdeep Kaur, Chairperson, informed that every year the students come up with annual play production and this year it has been directed by
Sangeet Natak Award winning Director Sh. Probir Guha. His work with the students in the
last 25 days has brought an immensely powerful piece of thought provoking art that
reflects today’s reality. Sh. Probir Guha said that his theatre is
inexpensive but not compromising with art. This he learnt from his tradition. He believes in Poor Theatre.
Here poverty is his property. It teaches him to understand a
magical make believe world. It is the strength of his theatre. He
believe more in process, less in product. According to him, this 25
days exercises is termed as "Production Process". He informed
that the right from the selection of theme, making compositions, choreography,
improvisations, costume and light design even the name of the play -all
credit goes to students. The participants on stage:- Aanand
Priya, Jatin Sharma, Nikhil Nikhlesh, Mohit Mehra, Pardeep Giri,
JashanJit Singh, Atulya Manoj, Suneedhi Sharma, Amaninder Pal Singh, Ashiya Madaar, Shailesh Kumar, Ankit Singh, Navneet
Kaur, Abhishek Arya, Harsangeet Grewal & Kanishk. The
participants off stage for Lights were Deep Singh, Aditya Pandita & Ranjit
Kumar. For Music Execution: -Singing and Percussion: Jagir
Singh, Randeep Kaur (Raza Heer) ,Sukhwant Singh, Ekam Maanuke
-Background Score : Vishal johri -Costume : Nitin , Aditya Pandita -Assistance to
Director : Nitin -Design & Direction : Probir Guha