Although it was previously said to be due to political pressure, the explanation has now emerged that the play was stopped due to the crowd. The theater group Majhuwa Bagar has stated on social media that they stopped the staging of the play due to the crowd.
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The staging of the play 'Lucifer Rising', staged in a theater in Nepal, has been indefinitely suspended.
Earlier, the explanation for the play being stopped due to the crowd has been released. The theater group Majhuwa Bagar has stated on social media that they stopped the play due to the crowd.
‘There is no politics of the crowd.’ The crowd can form a government, but can the crowd remain under the control of the government formed by the crowd? It is not any official government body or any political party that is stopping the performance of Lucifer Rising. It is the devil who lives in the darkness, who first enters the brain and gradually enters the body,’ a post on Instagram by Majhuwa Bagar reads. This is presented as the statement of the play’s director Sahlesh.
The explanation letter states that the play ‘Lucifer Rising’ is more about the dark tendencies than the rise of a person. Sahlesh writes that they stopped the play because of the crowd, metaphorically saying that this dark tendency enters the body and that this body itself has become a unit of the crowd. However, nothing is directly mentioned in this post. Therefore, Sahlesh writes at the end, ‘ informs us that the writer has surrendered before the crowd. Please leave it alone, the play ends after every show, the play is over.’
Earlier, Majhuva Bagar had informed that the play was stopped due to pressure from an unknown political person. ‘We have been forced to stop the show of the play Lucifer Rising due to pressure from an unknown political person, tendency and group. For this, we apologize to the audience who came to watch the play,’ the notice issued by the production team read.
According to actor Milan Khadka, who acted in the play, this play will cover the story of two characters living in a squatter settlement. This play, which includes the events after the Gen-G movement, shows the story of a male and female character trapped in addiction. Khadka says that the play included the theme of trying to expose the bad elements after the Gen-G movement. However, Milan says that he left the play from Saturday after the director included a new character in the play without informing him. ‘When I asked the director about the title of the play, he said that Lucifer means Satan. Now this name is also viral, that is why he used it,’ Khadka said. According to Khadka, after 3 shows, director Sahlesh added a new character to the play. Who represented the new government. Milan left the play after this step by the director.
He said that the artist is now unaware of the current situation after the staged play was closed. ‘The artist himself is unaware of what is happening,’ Khadka said. The play has been on stage since Jestha 1. After Sunday's show, the group decided to stop the performance.
On Monday, a theater said that they were unaware of the pressure on 'Lucifer Rising'. 'But what kind of pressure was there? Why was there such pressure? And who could be the group that put the pressure? Or how many numbers did the pressure come from? In this regard, we clarify that none of the members of One Theater Nepal, which provides theater space, have personal or institutional information,' a notice published by One Theater Nepal on social media Facebook reads.
