While bright colours add life to anything that maybe dull and boring, the aesthetics that come along with black and white are irreplacable. Whether it is black and white films, photographs, or for that matter, live drama in black and white. Yes, Hyderabadi theatre lovers will experience theatre like never before today. After experimenting with the fourth dimension in their debut theatre production, No Heaven (claimed to be the “world’s first 4D play”), city-based production house, Curtain Call Productions (CCP) is now coming out with their next experiment. Titled Alexander and his man Friday, it is claimed to be the first-of-its-kind since the entire play is in black and white. But why black and white? “Everyone loved that flashback scene of No Heaven (that was staged in June this year), which was in black and white. And, Alexander, who was a ghost in that story was a very powerful character. So, we decided to go black and white completely and weave a story about Alexander — what happened with him and the series of events that resulted in his death — making this a prequel to No Heaven,” explains Nader Rehaan, executive director, whose brainchild is CCP, founded a year ago. Ask Rehaan (who is all of 22 years old), what made him form this production house, and pat comes his reply, “The name was always there in my head, but never really thought about starting a production house. But, I wanted to do provide different, out-of-the-box concepts — be it in theatre, advertisements, or anything else. It was my love for innovative concepts that gave birth to CCP. We wanted to provide original plays with original scripts.” Apart from his passion for new and innovative concepts, it was the inclination towards the genre of horror that made the group work towards a 4D horror play in June that had a chill run down audience's spine. “I felt that I had never seen a good horror play — and that the only way to actually scare people was to involve them in the play. That is how the concept of 4D came into our debut production No Heaven,” recalls Rehaan. CCP is a youth organisation, wherein the youngest member is 16 years old, and the oldest a 22-year-old. Despite being the Gen-X, apart from being highly creative and talented, this group of youngsters has great organisational skills — everything is in an order and they have definite departments and proper hierarchy, to avoid any sort of confusion. “CCP was formed to encourage youngsters to come out and hone their talents, to provide a platform for people who are interested in performing arts and to be able to do some charity work as well. Whatever amount we earn, 40 per cent of it goes for charity,” reveals Rehaan, before signing off.
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