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| Adhe Adhure | ||||||||
| 11 January 2012, Kamani, 7:00 pm | ||||||||
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Playwright: Mohan Rakesh |
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| The Play | ||||||||
| Adhe Adhure is a story of life in contemporary society. It is about a life incomplete in itself, of a middle class family on the brink of collapse. Savitri, a middle aged woman, is dissatisfied with her circumstances - an unhappily married daughter, a promiscuous teenage girl, an unemployed son, and above all a husband who has failed to provide her with emotional and financial security. She seeks to fulfill herself in relationships outside marriage, only to realise that all men are essentially the same. The play, a powerful and unflinching look at marriage, explores the themes of fragmentation and incompleteness at the individual, familial, and social levels. What makes Savitri (one of Hindi theatre’s first feminist icons) so gripping, is that one is never sure whether playwright Mohan Rakesh admires her rage to get a grip on her life, or whether he suggests that she is a woman caught in her destiny and circumstances in the manner of a tragic Greek heroine. | ||||||||
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