In India, we have a marathon of street play which was organised in 2017. The venerable pioneer of Indian street theatre is Jana Natya Manch – People’s Theatre Front, or Janam – which was created nearly 40 years ago and popularised street theatre as activism. For example, Nirbhaya incident of 2013 that immensely impacted India has been portrayed beautifully in a street play in Gurgaon demonstrating the safety of women in India day to day negative impact of drinking and smoking on human health invarious nukkad natak. The maker or the scriptwriter takes different topics from general day to day instances or the burning topics that shook the world. The topics or the themes of an independent street play have always been on bringing the positive changes in the society. Uses of microphones and sound box depend on the size of the gathering. Not much scope of good acting is considered as the theme needs to be displayed in anexaggerated version. In a mime play, the face is being painted white and eyes should be highlighted in the black circle. As these plays are mostly low budgeted, the theme and the dressing has to be kept simple so almost no makeup looks are preferable unless it’s a mime. When the audience surrounds in a circular position, one person narrates while the actors do mime. To attract the audience they started playing a ‘dholak’ or choral song. The preparation of these plays takes a long time too depending on the topics and motive behind the play.
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