Who lives under your bed?

For all those who grew up believing in hidden creatures under your bed, experimental theatre group Asakta is presenting their latest play about recognising the child in you

If the name of a play is Bed Ke Neeche Rehnewali, you instinctively know there has to be a comic angle to it, and, you're right. Mohit Takalakar, director and founder of Asakta, speaks about their upcoming play. "It's a comedy and was originally an English play called The Girl Who Lives Under My Bed. It was written by Duncan Wells, a British playwright," said Takalakar. It has now been translated into Hindi by Sagar Deshmukh and Jitendra Joshi.



The one-act play is about a child named Ira and her invisible friend Manu.u00a0 Ira grows up and forgets about Manu. The opening sequence is about Manu crawling out from underneath the bed and wanting to know why Ira has stopped believing in her.

Takalakar adds, "This is not the first time this play is being performed. We have taken it to many drama festivals across the country and have always received a warm response wherever we have staged it. Now, with the vocations on, we thought why not stage it once again?"

The target audience and the protagonists are children but the play is meant for everyone. Underneath the simple storyline, there's an underlying symbolic meaning as well. "It's about discovering the lost child in yourself and to keep your inner child alive. When we grow up, we try to deny the fact that we were children once," he states. Incidentally, this play is the group's first play for young people. Since its inception in 2003, Asakta has staged several Marathi plays such as Charshe Koti Visarbhole.

From 7 pm onwards
At Nehru Memorial Hall, Camp.u00a0