Story of a Light Operator (2018)

Written and Directed by Omkar Bhatkar


The play opens with a light operator in a mental asylum who introspects on his journey as a theatre practitioner and his life as a life operator. In his early career, he worked with fellow thespians and did exceptional work on stage light design for their plays until he started seeing some paranormal activities on stage after pack up. The world of theatre that he had seen after everyone left from the auditorium left him baffled. Properties moved on its own, lights flickered on their own, the system played a background score and he witnessed it all. The paranormal experience of the stage left such an imprint on his life that the normal and the paranormal intermingled with each other in such a way that he didn’t know what was real and what was beyond the real, only to land up in a mental asylum. Does he discover the answers over there? Do the spirits of the stage follow him there? Is he even mental? What drove him to see what others couldn’t see?

Translated from English to Marathi by Pratibha Joshi.

Metamorphosis Theatre Inc Presentation