Mysore/Mysuru: Parva, a well-known novel of Dr. S.L. Bhyrappa is being adapted into theatre and will be staged for the first time, in all likelihood, in February last week or early March of this year.
Announcing this at a press meet at Sriranga auditorium here recently, Rangayana Director Addanda C. Cariappa said, “Preparations are in full swing to bring on stage the theatrical adaptation of popular novel ‘Parva’ written by noted Kannada novelist and Saraswathi Samman awardee Dr. S.L. Bhyrappa. Rangayana has earmarked Rs. 10 lakh and we are hoping to receive a grant of Rs. 50 lakh from the Government. We have already worked on the theatrical script. This will be a seven-and-a-half-hour play, one of the longest duration play in the history of modern theatre, which would include four intervals in between.”
