BENGALURU : When Societal Woes was first performed last year, soon after the show, a few audience members went up to the cast to tell them how relate-able the characters are.
According to the team, there are two sides to the comedy drama, that explores the lives that people live in apartment complexes. The stark contrast of the kind of people who co-habitat is shown with the help of a judgemental senior citizen as against home owners who constantly bring up ther respective demands in the committee meetings.
Sounds familiar?
“When you think about societies today, we see these committees get started with a lot of gusto. Over time, they are unwilling to let things happen. I find it fascinating that the same friends who you can gossip with in the day, can become adversaries by night,” comments Sriram Iyer, writer of the play.
He believes that the audience are intelligent enough to take away what they want from the play. He is quick to add that the story does not attempt to be preachy, but certain elements in the play will make one think about the contribution we make as individuals.
Sriram adds,”The audience will identify with the play. They will also understand what gets done unknowingly or knowingly, causing discord between the young, middle and old. This is fairly similar to the larger political scene, where there are good, bad people and others like you and me, just watching.”
Directed by Jagdish Raja, the 90-minute performance, this weekend will see few new cast members.
One of the actors, Shlok Menon who plays the role of Arjun Singh tells us,”My character returns from the US to live in the society. The older gentlemen judge and talk about how different the present generation is. For example, they talk about the dressing sense of women today.”
“The comic relief in the play, are the arguments that take place over extended pool timings or the sinking fund, which means maintenance fund. Everyone wants to give their two bits. In my personal opinion, this is an everyday story that also depicts harsh realities,” Shlok adds.
The play will take place in Rangashankara, JP Nagar on June 17 at 3.30 pm and 7.30 pm. Tickets are ` 200 and can be bought on bookmyshow.com