Mysuru: After a gap of seven years, the play ‘Checkmate’ is back again on the stage to entertain theatre lovers.

Artiste Prashanth Hiremath told media persons at Rangayana premises in city yesterday, the play will be staged on Nov. 10, 17 and 24 at 6.30 pm at Bhoomigeetha auditorium in Rangayana. The play will be completing its 100th show on Nov. 17.

The play originated in Marathi with Yogesh Soman being the playwright, that was translated into Kannada by Dr. Thippeswamy. The play, directed by Anoop Joshi, has music by Sreenivas Bhat (Cheeni), stage design by H.K. Dwarakanath and lightings by Mahesh Kallathi.

Senior artiste Hulagappa Kattimani said, “we are back on the stage at Rangayana even after retiring from the repertory.”

Checkmate is one of the popular theatrical experiments of Rangayana, that revolves around the sequences of cheating, fraud and murder, that will be probed by a capable Police Officer.

Senior artistes Prashanth Hiremath, M.S. Geetha and Hulagappa Kattimani have enacted the play.