The play depicts the victory of good over evil through the events in the life of Shriram. It begins with the childhood of Shriram and his brothers, and through events during Vanvas, involvement of key characters like Guru Vashishth, Guru Vishwamitra, Kaikeyee, Manthara, Dashrath, Janak, Shabari, Jatayu, Sugriv and his vanar sena, Indrajeet, Shurpanakha, culminates in Ravan’s vadh. The play is performed by children in the age group of 5 to 14 years.

Director:

Radhika Deshpande, (pen name ‘Ranee’), is an actor, writer, and director with over 12 years of experience in children’s theatre. She has authored 12 one-act plays for children—10 in Marathi, one in Hindi, and one in English—with translations available in English and Hindi through six published books. She has also written two mega-plays, Siyavar Ramchandra Kee Jai, and Raje Shivba. She has conducted workshops in cities such as Nagpur, Nashik, Perth, and San Jose. In February 2025, she organized ‘Shatakon’ at Yashwantrao Chavan Natyagruha, Pune, 2025, in which she presented her six plays for children. She also writes for “Sakal” and “Mumbai Tarun Bharat,” with 50 of her articles compiled into a coffee table book titled Womanhood.

Director’s Note

Ramayan is the history of Bhartiya civilisation and depicts the victory of good over evil. As writer and director, I have used the events in the life of Shriram to inculcate moral values in children performing the play and, through its performance, in the society. The play has 10 original songs with dances; through 44 scenes involving changing sets, the play test the skills of artists doing lights, music, costumes, property and set movements, and the actors. As a writer, I sowed the seeds of each scene, later synthesized as the director and transformed by the artists between 5 to 14 years age, in a metamorphic way to give a unique experience to the audience.

Group:

Radhika Creations has taken birth through the incredible imagination of child artists, a home for children to Act, Create, and Perform. Active in Pune since a decade, it has organised performances of one-act plays, two-act plays, street plays, mono-acts, dance-drama shows, short films, advertisement, Grips theatre, and conducted more than 30 online drama workshops during the pandemic.