Premanand gajvee (2 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: New. Premanand Gajvee writes with a fierce urge to expose unspoken histories and set right historical wrongs. His plays, never complex, have the unerring ability to unsettle and move the reader, and compel us to reckon with discomfiting realities. The three plays translated from Marathi in this collection-each representing a distinct style in Gajvee's oeuvre-probe contentious questions of contemporary relevance, often evoking widespread debate. The one-act Ghotbhar Pani (A Sip of Water), performed over 3,000 times, fuses a folk idiom with absurdist, nameless characters; the Greek tragedy-like Kirwant explores the plight of a sub-caste of untouchable brahmins who are despised for performing death rites; and Gandhi-Ambedkar stages the clash between two titans mediated by an irreverential, imaginary, interstitial clown.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. Premanand Gajvee tells the story of a little known sect of Brahmans known as kirwants whose religious duty it is to perform the last rites at cremations. Marginalized by the entire community in general and the Brahmans in particular kirwants are treated like polluting outcastes. Based on a personal experience that occurred as recently as the 1980s this play which deals savagely with a subject carefully kept under wraps is a severe indictment of an inhuman social system. Kirwant created a sensation in the Marathi theatre scene when it was first produced. One of the greatest actors of our theatre Shreeram Lagoo taking up the cudgels for a relatively unknown playwright offered to perform the lead role of the kirwant Siddheshwarshastri. 88 pp.…