Play 'Vera's Tales' unravel the imperfect world of adults

As part of the ongoing ‘

Young Directors Theatre Festival

’, unique stories of Vera aimed to reveal the imperfect world of adults was staged at

Jawahar Kala Kendra

recently. Vera is a 15-year old girl whose vivid imagination brought forth two different situations to light – ‘The Quince Tree’ and ‘The Open Window’. The play was directed by Vagmi Raghava.


The play is set in the second decade of the 20th century in the English countryside where Vera lives with her English aunt. Vera is a storyteller who is relaxed and self-possessed at heart. The young girl doesn’t want her life to revolve around men, desiring more freedom and excitement in her life, Vera reads stories and indulges in fantasies. Vera’s tall tales are a means of escapism from life in the boring, adult world.

The writer of the story is British playwright,

H.H. Munro

. Munro’s extraordinary stories are a mixture of humorous satire, irony and the macabre. Through his stories, he viciously brands the stupidities and hypocrisy of conventional society.