Curtain Raiser

‘Sankalp’ flagged off its journey for the year in style on 30th July 2009. The opening night managed to hit the right chord with its audience by dishing out two short plays under the theme “A Drag”.

The evening opened with the ‘Marijuana Monologues’; a humorous take on the immensely popular play, The Vagina Monologues, but from a different perspective. The play dealt with the experiences, the ‘highs’ and lows of three seasoned marijuana smokers and how the world commonly views these drug addicts.  It then comically reversed the equation to show how the same drug addicts would look at the world and how different that world would be from the one we are accustomed to. The play challenged the common place notions of addiction in society leaving the audience quite stunned.

Living up to the mood and tone set by ‘Marijuana Monologues’, the second play ‘Smoke Scenes’, a delightful short play of 51 scenes, was both engaging and experimental. The simple one-act play had one set, two characters, and little movement and revolved around different uses of the word smoke. The different contexts and connotations of the word backed by powerful dialogues filled the stage with more character than one imagined.

The loyal student clientele ensured a packed house; proof of the passion for theatre that runs high amongst MICAns.