Prayagraj: The five-day theatre festival, organised by Vinod Rastogi Smriti Sansthan in association with the ministry of culture, Government of India, kicked-off amid bouts of laughter in the audience on Saturday, as a comedy play titled ‘Promotion’ staged in the NCZCC auditorium managed to tickle the audiences' funny bones. The play is written by Vinod Rastogi and directed by Abhilash Narain.
The play revolves around an office clerk who adopts tricks to impress his boss for a promotion. He even introduces his friend’s wife as his better half and asks his wife to act as a maidservant. The boss becomes suspicious and the plot laid down by the clerk begins to unravel, leading to hilarious events.
Actors Akshat Agrawal, Apoorva Gupta, Riya Jaiswal, Abhilash Narain, Ankit Kashyap, Shubham Verma, and Gaurav Tripathi received applause from the audience for their work on the stage. Shujoy Ghoshal on lights, music design by Ajay Mukherjee, music operation by Aman Pandey and Ashish Yadav, make-up by Sanjay Chaudhary, director Abhilash Narain, directorial assistance Saurabh Shukla, and producer Alok Rastogi was appreciated by the audience.
This five-day theatre festival would continue till February 24 at its venue, the North Central Zone Cultural Centre, Prayagraj and the plays would be performed from 6.30pm onwards.
This festival is dedicated to the memories of senior theatre personalities Ashwini Agrawal, Kalyan Ghosh, Dr Anupam Anand, Shailtanaya Srivastava, and Puja Thakur.
On February 21, a serious play ‘Purna Purush’ will be staged under the direction of Ajay Mukherjee. ‘Nautanki Aalaa Afsar’ is to be presented on February 22 under Atamjeet Singh’s direction.
On February 23, the play titled Court Marshal will be staged under the direction of Sudesh Sharma of Chandigarh, while the five-day theatre festival will conclude on February 24 with ‘Prem Chand ke Paatra- Prem Chand ke Saath’ under the direction of Manavendra Tripathi from Gorakhpur.