Aleks sierz biography of mahatma
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Aleks sierz biography of mahatma
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The Father and the Assassin, National Theatre
Nobodies who kill somebodies: let’s make a list. Okay, there’s Lee Harvey Oswald (JFK), James Earl Ray (MLK) and Mark Chapman (John Lennon). But what about the man who shot Mahatma Gandhi? What was his name? The fact that Nathuram Godse is relatively unknown, at least in the West, while Gandhi is a household name, is one of the motivations behind Anupama Chandrasekhar’s epic history play, which was first staged at the National Theatre last year, and now returns, this time with Olivier Award-winner Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) as Godse and Paul Bazely reprising his role as Gandhi. But as well as being a dazzling account of Indian history in the first half of the 20th century, it is also a meditation on fact and fiction.
Because not much is known about Nathuram Godse’s life, Chandrasekhar has been free to invent a biography which involves, she explicitly says, “some dramatic licence”, eliding years and events to make the storytelling
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Drawing the Line (play)
2013 play by Howard Brenton
Drawing the Line is a 2013 play by Howard Brenton, centred on Cyril Radcliffe and his part in the partition of India in 1947. It premiered from 3 December 2013 to 11 January 2014, in a production directed by Howard Davies at London's Hampstead Theatre.[1]
Storyline
[edit]Set in 1947, the play tells the story of Cyril Radcliffe and the boundary commission for the Punjab portion of the eponymous Radcliffe Line. “Ignorant of India, mathematics or map-reading, the principled Radcliffe finds himself the victim of despair, as well as Delhi belly, and enmeshed in a whole series of escalating conflicts.”[2]
Production history
[edit]The debut run of the play was completely sold out. Thousands of people from more than 80 countries also tuned in to watch the final performance streamed on the web in association with The Guardian.[3]
Critical reception
[edit]Reviews[4] were general