Morung Express News
Kohima | June 9
Enacting the causes and effects of tobacco, a group ensemble performance at Modern College challenged the audience for a healthy tobacco free-life.
The ‘students’ of Modern College of Teacher Institute (MITE) staged the Ensemble Performance entitled, "Say No Tobacco – Live Healthy" at the college auditorium on June 8. Challenging the audiences with the dramatic performances, the performance also portrayed how people have become only passive listeners and not actors on the deadly affects of tobacco.
Using various quirky slogans like “Life is precious, be brighter, put down the lighter!”; “If you can’t stop smoking, cancer will!”; Cancer cures smoking”; and “A cigarette say: Today you turn me into ashes, but tomorrow is my turn,” the performance drove home the point regarding the harmful effect of tobacco.
Using hand gesture to represent the deadly effects and face expression to denotes how it pollutes and litter the body, it also highlighted various disease caused by tobacco.
Directed by Temjenzunba Kechu, Theatre director/Actor and National School of Drama alumna with specialization in Theatre Techniques and design, the performance was presented in collaboration with Doordarshan and Tobacco Control Programme (NTCP) under the Department of health and family welfare.
The Nagaland Street Art, K Cynthia Kolkhe, Muzung Yimchunger, Imjung Longshiri and Louis Chhetri also collaborated in costume, make up, property, body art and visuals.
The performance was developed as part of the drama and art in education curriculum where students analyze various pressing social issues and transform the classroom into a creative and dramatized zone.
The performance on anti-tobacco was one such conceptualization, according to the director.
