This play deals with making sense of contemporary polity in the
post-Gujarat Scenario and presents a scathing attack on majoritarianism.
The script of the above was culled from workshops where people who
were present in towns of Gujarat when all this happened also
participated. It was an effort both at script creating and re-enactment.
Our impassioned reaction to what has happened in Gujarat at the
beginning of the year, the play picks up and foregrounds images of
violence from our ethos. Violence, destruction, state oppression – in
a world fast losing sanity, the play to foregrounds conflict and
conflict resolution (possible/difficult/impossible). Within this rather
broad ambit we would work intensively in our reality. We move back and
forth images of terror and oppression.
This play was first presented in Delhi’s Shri Ram Centre on July 3rd and 4th. We followed this with participation in the Commonwealth Theatre festival at Manchester in July 2002.
The festival, a result of feverish yearlong activity and testimony to the close relations that pandies has formed with friends/colleagues not only in the UK but also in several third world countries besides. The play was highly appreciated both by audiences in Delhi and Manchester.
This play was first presented in Delhi’s Shri Ram Centre on July 3rd and 4th. We followed this with participation in the Commonwealth Theatre festival at Manchester in July 2002.
The festival, a result of feverish yearlong activity and testimony to the close relations that pandies has formed with friends/colleagues not only in the UK but also in several third world countries besides. The play was highly appreciated both by audiences in Delhi and Manchester.
Script: Anand Prakash, Sanjay Kumar
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