Review: SINGLE -- A PLAY BY DIONYSIAC THEATRE COMPANY, That Speaks To All Of Us

Being Single can be both the most powerful as well as the most vulnerable feeling in the world.

Therefore, when a play recently staged in Mumbai, through a series of monologues explored the meanings and significance of being single it did attract urban attention.

Directed by Karan Pandit, the play though a series of eight monologues talks about how being single can have different meanings and invoke different emotions in certain situations.

There is a sense of similarity as well as humor running in the story. Like a smuggler from Nagpada who is arranging for a date with his girlfriend. From his end while he has ensured that everything is 'Ek Number,' he cannot control that his girlfriend is running late. During the stories, when you see a Londoner talking about the liberation that comes along with lone drinking, you can't help but relate to the circumstances in your own life. What remains beautiful about the monologues is that various aspects of relationships are talked about. So, there is a mom who is talking about devotion and religion in relation to his son. The story of a woman remembering how she met the 'one' in her life in a sudden but uneventful way, also speaks largely to the masses that sometimes significant things happen in life without any major signs or fan fare.

Enacted by Vishaal Handa, Aneesha Shah, Karan Pandit and Sushrii Shreya Mishraa the monologues do win because they are able to keep the audiences engaged. The story begins and ends and there is no feeling of repetition. The most important thing in a monologue is that the characters must be etched strongly and the conversation should suffice for the beginning, end and the plot and Single delivers that with a bang.

Single was staged at The Cuckoo Club in Bandra this month.