Farm widows get a stage to share their plight

Nagpur | Tuesday | 11th December, 2018

Summary:

He conducts theatre workshops and holds plays to revive folk and rural traditions, theatre and music. Nagpur: Desperate to find a sympathetic ear of a political bigwig, the farm widows of Vidarbha have now got an entire stage to vent their frustrations. Ithape conducted workshops to train them and picked up six widows who will be supported by actors from his group. The first show will be staged in the city on December 15 at Sai Sabhagruh.Tervah (thirteenth day after a death) will have six widows from Amravati, Wardha and Yavatmal acting out their lives on stage. Journalist Shyam Pethkar and schoolteacher-turned-drama director Harish Ethape have woven their travails into a script for a play titled ‘Tervah’..