Six Days Of Going Solo

After performing non-stop for six days and nights, theatre actor Chakresh Kumar wants to now concentrate more on experimental theatre

- Sukant Deepak

For six days and nights, he was on the stage without a break, and brought alive more than 20 characters from everyday life. There was no bound script, and improvisation was the name of the game. From July 22 to July 28, his own self-was pushed in the background somewhere while he was engrossed in Ras Abhinay at Tagore Theatre in Chandigarh.

Chandigarh-based theatre director and actor Chakresh Kumar, one of the youngest recipients of Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puruskar (2015), says that while bringing to stage the solo impulse psychological journeys of different characters, he sometimes feared getting lost in their darkness. “The whole experience was satisfying but also quite scary. After all, taking on different personalities for so many days and nights can leave one’s own self bruised. Precisely, that was the reason why I consulted a doctor before making this attempt,” he says.