Kusum Bahl Scores Signal Triumph as Eurydice
Not that this is the first time Kusum has given evidence of her gifts. There was her small but beautiful Fleance in Macbeth and, a little later, an Antigone whose depth and maturity were almost unnatural for a girl in her teens. It is worth analyzing the secret of a personal triumph of this sort. I think a single word will explain it-intensity. Not many are able to be entirely oblivious of an audience, to ignore the many extraneous distractions (both on and off stage) that creep in during a performance. As long as she lives each moment of the script, as long as she treats each syllable as if it were the most important thing on earth, there are not likely, for a long, long time, to be many rivals on Kusum Bahl’s horizon.

Antigone
The Theatre Unit’s Antigone was Kusum Bahl and it was certainly a tour de force on her part. She has a most expressive face and runs the whole gamut of emotions in her acting - tenderness, pathos, despair, defiance, resignation and love. If there was any criticism to be made it was that she played it more in the heroic Sophocles mould rather than in the anti-heroic Anouilh pattern. She is one of the Theatre Unit’s most accomplished actresses and her return to Bombay was responsible for the revival of this play, which the Theatre Unit had staged two years ago with Kusum Bahl in the lead.

Joan of Arc
Deeply moving it is time after time; and if in this splendid production it was deeply moving it was due to the superb performance of that gifted actress, Miss Kusum Bahl. We have had occasion to praise her historic ability several times; anyone who wishes to see great acting should go and see her in this sustained piece of intensity, this almost savagely faith, this marvelous interpretation of innocence and obsession.