Nautanki, in Hindi, simply means drama.
And that is exactly what we have in store for the audience… good, entertaining,
engrossing drama. Drama that rises above the minions of detached
canned entertainment one gets so often these days. It is this emphasis
on quality, that has earned this drama group of SIA/NOL Indian scholars
from NUS and NTU, the adulation of audiences. Our maiden public production,
Nautanki ’99, was held in Drama
Center on February 6th and 7th, 1999. A Night of Emotional Economics, was
the theme which strung together three award winning English plays, written
by an acclaimed Indian teacher-playwright, and which put the ongoing Asian
economic crisis into a colorful perspective.
Nautanki 2000, promises once again, to provoke
the audience with its central theme of Eccentricity. Eccentricity, though
often associated with madness, refers here to irregularity or something
that is different from the expected norm. We have chosen three English
plays for illuminating the various aberrations of human nature. There is
laughter, there is sorrow, there is mystery and there is philosophy. A
complete spectrum of emotions, it will be a rib-tickling, mind-swirling
evening of light and deep shades of human drama, guaranteed
to satisfy both the grave and the garrulous. The plays will be held at
Jubilee Hall on 5th February, 2000, starting at 6.45pm. With your support,
Nautanki 2000, a pot pourri of eccentricity, would indeed be a Millenium
Production.
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