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‘Vidhuran’ — a one-of-a-kind play where three different art forms were weaved together to tell a story — was staged at Sivagami Petachi Auditorium, Chennai, recently.
Trained under ‘Vietnam Veedu’ Sundaram (‘Gouravam’-fame director), the theatre group Mactrics, showcased all the three art forms — theatre, dance and mime - brilliantly to a small audience.
The performers, clad in black, enacted one of the scenes from the Mahabharata where Vidhuran saves the Pandavas from the clutches of Duryodhana and his brothers with the help of their facial expressions and hand gestures. The story was narrated in a way that helped the play remain focused on all the three forms of art.
Mime being one of the lesser performed art forms in Chennai, the theatre group decided to spread some awareness about it. This event was more like a first step for the team in urging the sabhas and other theatre groups to collaborate with them for more such mime acts.
It should have taken a lot of effort and skill for this team of 20 (students and working professionals) who had put together the act in less than three months.
Victor, the creative head of the team, mentioned that in Chennai, pantomime is popular, but not many are well-versed with miming, which is also an important art form.
He says, “A lot of people confuse pantomime with miming. This is one platform to make the audience acknowledge the significance of miming. We want to take this art form to a higher level. This show was mainly staged so that we deliver better performance in the future. This was just a grand rehearsal.”
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