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Explore the beauty of Marathi plays at this theatre festival in Mumbai
Updated On: 17 May, 2024 09:05 AM IST | Mumbai | Devashish Kamble
A three-day festival celebrating Marathi theatre will bring together works by veterans and young experimental theatre makers under one roof in the city
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(Left) Dilip Prabhavalkar and (right) Vijay Kenkre at a reading of their new play Patra Patri
Urban theatre audiences dipping their toes in regional waters usually draw their proverbial line at plays set in Hinglish. Marathi theatre, in the absence of such a hybrid tongue, has remained somewhat of a mystery to those unfamiliar with the language. A theatre festival titled Pratibimb will bring handpicked Marathi plays out of the ‘natyagruhas’ scattered in the city to the global stage at the National Centre For Performing Arts today.
Rajeshri Shinde, festival director, believes the festival is a revival rather than a fresh introduction. “In the 1980s and ‘90s, NCPA would regularly host Marathi plays written by stalwarts such as PL Deshpande, who would frequent the stages here. Slowly, the shows moved out to close-knit hubs elsewhere,” she recalls.
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