Theater Village staging Jagadish Ghimire's Sabiti

By A Staff Reporter Kathmandu, June 27: A play based on author Jagdish Ghimire's novel Sabiti will be staged by Theatre Village at Shilpee Theatre for three days from July 1 to 3.  The play will be designed and directed by Bimal Subedi.

Anuradha Majumder, a well-known Indian Theatre artiste, will portray the lead character in the play. 

She has already performed in the marvelous plays like Khuma and Baki Ujyalo and is a key member of the Nepali Theatrical fraternity.

Despite the fact that this novel was written many years ago, its director Bimal Subedi contends that the novel 'Sabiti' accurately captures the true nature of the myriad absurdities that continue to exist in society today.

 He claimed that Jagdish Ghimire was eagerly looking forward to watching this narrative being staged. Unfortunately, the author died before he story was given its theatrical shape.

"The Theatre Village decided to produce this play as a first step toward its mission of elevating Nepali Theatre and literature to an international level because majority of foreign plays are being translated and adapted into Nepali theatre", said Subedi.

This story vividly dissects various ideologies and forms of globalization, including patriarchy, social discrimination, political anomalies, education, and health, according to Anuradha Majumder, the play's lead actor and the head of the acting department at the State University of Performing and Visual Arts in Haryana. 

She also added that this play has exposed the dark side of politics, and asserts that the situation in India and Nepal is somewhat similar. 

She claimed that the play's placement of the female characters at the centre of the uneven social structure - despite the fact that the original plot is told from the perspective of the male character - is its most appealing feature.

 "Through the female characters, the play examines the direct repercussions of class structure, gender, ethnicity, and economic distribution, when the society's stratum deviates from the road of equality." The play explores several perspectives on the revolting society and has a nihilistic philosophical position.

Along with Anuradha, Sujan Oli and Sajan Kumar Sunuwar will be sharing the stage. The Theatre Village had recently staged a play Palpasa Café based on Narayan Wagle's popular novel with the same name.