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| E=mc2 | ||||||||
| 13 January 2012, SRC, 4:30 pm | ||||||||
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Script & Direction: Raja Bhattacharya |
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| Digging into the past, Sarat Chowdhury, an “insane” professor unearths information on the handling of nuclear energy. ‘E=mc2,’ Einstein’s revolutionary formula had shaken the world in the first half of the 20th century and paved the way for a new world, perhaps braver but much more ruthless. The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 revealed just how lethal such knowledge, especially when used against an unsuspecting population, can be. The play depicts the imaginary trial of representatives of the human race – scientists, professors, doctors, engineers, politicians and military personnel on the one hand, and the charred, bereaved, traumatized victims of the bombing, on the other. As the trial proceeds, terrible truths are reveled, and Sharat’s thirst for justice –for the individual as well as for the entire human race – grows stronger. Terrified about the potential radioactive fallout that might be unleashed on the world and through his emotionally effected state, he manages to reach what he believes to be the root of the malady. |
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