The play 'Maharani's Procession', staged at Kantipur Theater, strikes a deep blow at the insensitivity, arrogance, and indifference of politics and leadership towards the state.
What you should know
Very fickle by nature. The impatient and egotistical queen one day comes across a magazine called 'Ramailo Chha'! The 8-page long news item contains the news of the coronation of Princess Sofia of a nearby kingdom.
The Queen begins to panic after seeing her picture with her husband Brian published in such a famous celebrity magazine.
The jealousy within her creates such a stir that the Queen announces her marriage to be published in the magazine. She orders the palace to start preparations for the coronation for the second time, even if it is just to find the crown that she has thrown away in the store room. Now where can such an arrogant Queen find a king? Where can she find the crown that she has thrown away? Then the procession in the palace begins. In a special sense, the Queen's procession!
The play 'The Queen's Procession' staged at Kantipur Theatre tells the story of such a ruler, who is entangled in the extraneous glamour of the kingdom. The dress she wears is an example of this - a bright purple dress. What kind of chaos does an immature, insensitive and short-sighted leadership bring to the state? 'Maharani's procession' is a strong satire.
The Queen has no concern for the state or its inhabitants. She keeps herself at the center. She runs after her goals, plans and dreams. However, the state does not fit into her dreams. Instead of benefiting the state and improving the lives of those in the state, the Queen keeps repeating the task of adding more crisis to their lives.
This play, directed and conceived by Deepal Baral, satirizes Nepali politics and the leadership that has reached the state, who has set up a procession bigger than the Queen. Such arrogant leadership due to which the country burned and instability persisted. This play, which questions the current Nepali society, Nepali politics and leadership, will be staged until November 20. Although the
play captures the current situation with humor, the play has not been able to capture some aspects. For example, it uses double-meaning dialogue. Double-meaning dialogue has been used in many places in the name of making the play fun. However, it seems that these words have been put in the dialogue to make the audience laugh. In fact, even if the situation of how our leadership is making the people laugh was included, the audience could have laughed. Such double-meaning dialogues and scenes full of exaggeration have made the serious issues carried by the play superficial in many places. If the director had said these dialogues in a roundabout way instead of in direct language, the audience would have reached the depth of the serious issues raised by the play. If that sensitivity had been captured in the ambiguous dialogues spoken by the characters from the doctor to the Prime Minister and the Pandit, the fragrance would have been added to the gold.
The use of the narrator (narrator) in this play is very boring. In particular, the way the story progresses in the play, there is no need for a narrator. That is why the establishment of this character in the play, the impact this character has on the story is not important. There are many characters in the play, all the characters are given equal importance. The character who handles the public relations department presents this character on stage in a beautiful style. From the character who becomes a police officer to the editor of 'Ramalo Chha' and Chandu, the characters keep the audience laughing. Usha Rajak looks unmatched in the character of the Queen. She has revealed the arrogance and arrogance within a ruler full of ego through her physical gestures and spoken dialogue.
The beautiful aspect of this play is the way it tells the dialogues it breaks. In particular, the characters in this play speak in exaggerated dialogues. They are not speaking in colloquial language, but rather exaggerating it. The style adopted by the play to satirize the leadership that is forgetting reality and moving towards exaggeration is very interesting.
In a few scenes, this style adopted by Usha, who has become the queen, makes the audience laugh and wonderfully leads the audience towards the seriousness of the subject matter. The end of the play is filled with very powerful and strong images.
