Jammu, March 30 -- Natrang presented an experimental performance of Stanley Houghton's popular play 'The Dear Departed' which is a social play on the condition of the elderly people who are being abandoned and neglected by their own children. The play is optimistic that even elderly people may choose to live merrily, despite their old age. The play was directed by Neeraj Kant who very intelligently accommodated a number of actors in the play without changing its texture and pace.
In the beginning of the play, 'Mrs. Slater' goes to offer something to grandfather 'Abel Merryweather' and finds him quite cold and motionless. She declares that the grandfather is no more. Accordingly, her sister and her husband, the 'Jordans' are informed about ...