Kathmandu, July 16 -- What colour should a leaf be painted? Green? What about the sun? Yellow? And what about an apple? Red? Kedar Shrestha's produced children's play 'Guliyo Shyau', 'A Sweet Apple', asks its mostly preschool audience these questions. And when the children see the preschooler on stage, played by Manish Byanju, paint the leaf brown, the sun yellow, and the apple green, they turn riotous.

The play's concept is incredibly simple yet well executed. Byanju plays what appears at first to be a bumbling fool on stage. When he needs help from one of the preschool audience members for something as simple as picking up a small wooden stand, the children take it for granted that Byanju's character will need assistance for whatever i...