Oct 10 2024 to Oct 10 2024 7:30 p.m.

EVENT HAS ENDED

Price: Rs 200 Book/Buy

Where

Ranga Shankara

36/2, 8th Cross Rd, R K Colony, 2nd Phase, J. P. Nagar 560078

Event Description

Mricchakatika (the Mud Cart), originally a Sanskrit drama is attributed to ‘King Shudraka’ who is believed to have lived between the 3rd Century BC and 5th Century AD. The play holds a timeless quality and is being adapted and enacted till date around the world. ‘The Game of Gold and Clay’ is a title metaphor that echoes the many voices in the play. One can live without gold but one cannot imagine living without soil or the earth. Likewise, the labourers of the earth. Gold can be an object of adornment and boastful possession for the elite but not be the driving force of soil. However, the one thing that is both the green and the breath of all living things is soil. “Cloud is the offspring of earth and water”. There is no life without the elements. The inherent wisdom of the earthen beings play an important role in resisting and overcoming the obstacles faced by both the State and life. The golden ornament adorning Vasant Sena becomes an object of theft, an object of love, a child’s toy, an object of accusation of murder, and finally an object of dishonour for Charudatta, thus a cause of sensation in the entire Ujjain city.