“My play begins where Ibasen’s Peer Gent The end, “says Dipan Shivraman, director of the adaptation of the 19th -century play epinem written by Heinrich Ibson, says Dipan Shivraman. The retail of the story of fantasy caution about a young farmer of Deepan, who travels to the world, who crosses his way, exploits everyone who exploits everyone, who is ready to stagn the first in the Rousse Is.
Deepan Shivraman, Director Peer Gent
Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
The Oxygen Theater Company of Thrissur premiered Deepan Peer Gent In 2011 at the Delhi Ibsen Festival, the Norwegian Embassy and many other organizations were organized. Late Malayalam actor Anil Nedumangad played the role of colleague in production and staged at Kerala’s International Theater Festival (ITFOK), Bharat Ranga Festival and National Theater Festival. The company presented it in a site like an arena, in which the audience was seated around the stage.
The play belongs to a school of a thinker named Social Realism, a portrayal that holds a mirror for society. ,Peer GentAmong other works of Ibsen A doll house, master BuilderAnd EnemiesMarks the beginning of modernism in Norway, ”is called Deepan.
“In 2023, we resumed Peer GentTwo things changed. One, some members had to change in the artists, and two, we introduced some ideological changes from the original drama, ”says Deepan.
In the original drama, a colleague, a selfish and arrogant farmer travels to the world. In this process, he cheats his mother, lover and friends. To return as an old man. When he returns, as an old man, he realizes the futility of his journey and wants him to live a more meaningful life. In his journey, he finds out to God, who comes as a character called button molder, and Devil, Deepan explains. The button molder decides to melt her and convert her into a button for her tasks, but he survived.
Stills from Peer Gent Directed by Deepan Shivraman and performed by the Oxygen Theater Company. Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
However, the version of Deepan begins with an old colleague who is waiting in front of a morgue with bodies. He finds out that he is going to hell once after death, and asks the attendant in the morchary, who is God to give him another chance. “Peer says it is not his fault, because he had no guidance,” says Dipan. The colleague escapes in the hope of amending. The devil, who sits in the crowd, challenges the decision of God, allows such a man to scott-free-an example of how the play displays the characteristics of the modern theater, in which a character emerges from the crowd.
Finally, the colleague loses his purity and ends in a mental hospital. She is called a wedding dress by an old woman wearing a wedding dress, which is broken beyond repairing her beyond the ‘a failed man’, indicating that indicate that it can also be interpreted as parts of the internal ideas of the colleague.
Adopt a classic
Adaptation is relevant in contemporary society. For example, the devil appears as a supervisor of the colleague when he acts as a carpenter. He tells Peer that if he wants to do well for people, he should go to America, where many are philanthropists. Devil tells him that he can sell weapons there and “help people in Central Asia”, says Deepan, who further states how a rich colleague returns to India as an industrialist, but what he has earned is taken away, when he is looted and a journalist tells the world.
Especially EtihmasamOne of the famous plays of Deepan, premiered in 2015 and has been developing since. , Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
“In drama, Kovid -19 plays a big role. For our generation, this is our only encounter with an epidemic. It impressed everyone, even though despite their economic status. People started thinking of right and wrong, and I read. Peer Gent In such a context, “Deepan adds.
Stills from Peer Gent Directed by Deepan Shivraman and performed by the Oxygen Theater Company. Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
“When you read a classical lesson in the 21st century, it should interact with the current position. The reality and conflict can change, but when you re -organize it the play itself separates. I look for a lesson colloquial possibility to mix it with a current situation,” Says Deepan.
Theater vs cinema
The director, who also plays button molder in the play, says that the drama change was a need to use the maximum capacity of the theater. “Theater is no longer a popular form. It needs to reach people and provide them with experiences that cannot offer cinema or any other medium. It can stimulate many senses. For example, a drama -like Especially ITSAM Appeals to its feeling of smell, sound and vision. But cinema is just trying to be 3D and 4D, in an attempt.
The Oxygen Theater Company staged a new version of the drama for the first time in Shanghai, China in 2023 and since then performed three times.
Dipan says, “I consider writing a drama like cooking. You taste it many times and refine it to achieve the spirit of fulfilling it. I have been working on this lesson since 2010, and the epidemic has contributed to it, in which the elements about the morchary and the hospital are actually changing the text.”
Especially EtihmasamOne of Deepan’s famous plays, premiered in 2015 and has been developing since – another profit is on films and novels in the theater, lending the ability to develop it over time.
Says Deepan, “Those who have worked in it have also matured. Some of them started in the 20s and now they are in the 40s. The characters have also developed with them. After a decade more than a decade, after a decade, after a decade, after a decade, the story really has some life,” says Dipan.
The play has also been invited to the Fajr International Theater Festival in Tehran, Iran, next year and Germany.
Peer Gent will be staged at the Alexandrinsky Theater Festival on 2 and 3 September.
Published – August 29, 2025 11:00 AM IST
