Portrait of the Audience [short, one-act play]
Portrait of the audience By Anant gaur portrait of the audience is essentially a discussion between two wildly different men of peculiar ages. starting off with the depiction of a painting, its details, texture etc.. and moving towards the sour truth behind, putting on-canvas, literally a portrait of the audience. a romantic tragedy at its core, POA also showcases the contrasting shades of a person's inner & outer psyche and their indifference towards other people's loss. Part1 Removing the colours . [A painting exhibition (a gallery)] Man1 enters from the gate. (An Intellectual looking man in his late 40’s, wearing black kurta pajama and a Nehru jacket over it, having a mature grizzled beard and nicely combed back hair and tendency of repeating his words.) He hangs around the gallery looking at a few paintings and finally stops in front of the stage facing the audience. [Random people walking in the background] Man2 ent...