Playwrights note Aikyatan- The Beethoven of someone’s heart

The ideas a play wishes to reflect originates in the sensibilities

of the playwright. Yet he has an uneasy feeling that directorial liberty

has intruded and distorted his ideas. Even the actors tend to oppose

the playwright’s or the director’s viewpoints. None questions the

individuality of the performer. But once out of the green room and on

stage, an actor’s opinions are straight jacketed and he has to transform

himself into a puppet, controlled by the ventriloquist duo of the

playright and the director. Only thus can be kept intact the sensitivity

of a subject oriented play.

But when these very puppets spring to life and transmogrify

into unleashed powerhouses of emotions, who emasculates them?

The director can clip the wings of the actor. But can he convincingly

ensoul the characters as envisioned by the playwright ? So,

does the theatre stage turns into Armageddon for the conflicting dogmatism

of the actors, the playwright and the director ?

Some such ubiquitous antipathies are behind the nascence of

Gitanjali, Betaal, Beraag and Aikyataan – beings from the land of the

mind, who asks : are we the corpses of a cultural death ? Are our

artists the carcasses of art?

We hear resigned sighs in the affirmative.

So, against this fatalism we hereby launch our crusade.

Plyawrits note

Aikyatan

An Assamese musical play

From Satyanusandhan a collection of Play in Assamese

Distributor Bandhab ,Panbazar

Price :Rs.180