BURY THE DEAD REVIEW
BY NIPA RANG MANDALI
Kshitiz Kant; Lucknow
Bury the Dead is
an expressionist and anti-war drama by the American playwright Irwin
Shaw. It dramatizes the refusal of six dead
soldiers during an unspecified war—who represent a cross-section of American
society—to be buried.
Each rises from a mass nameless grave to express his anguish,
the futility of war, and his refusal to become part of the "glorious
past".
First the Captain and the Generals tell them it is their duty
to be buried, but they refuse.
Even a Priest and a Rabbi try to convince them to no avail.
Finally they bring in the women who have survived them, wives, sister and even
mother. None succeed in the end.
Mr Surya Mohan Kulshresth, the former director of BNA, is
well known personality in the field of playwright and the play ‘Bury the dead’
(Dafan Karo) which has been staged in Hindi at Bhartendu Natya Academy Lucknow
on Tueseday this week.
No doubt the artists of this play performed the characters
exactly like western excerpt, but the story runs around the present scenarios
in the world whether it is a happening of Middle East or a cross border
terrorism base killing of our army personnel.
The story touches the
heart when it shows the hurt armdmen's pain by injuries they had sustained by
bullets during the battle or clash in the war zone. It also gives a message to
the society where it enjoys all the perquisites of life, the army men’s desires
remain unfulfilled; for a while the dead army personnel recall all the event of
their lives from childhood unto the end at the eleven hours.
The whole world fights war for its political
goal; for the purpose of securing the capitalist interests; or for the economic
controlling power.
An aggression is being
created among the society in the back of nationalism and religion terming the
war, terror, and violence correct.
While it is to test how
near is to the present scenario shall have to see in the theater, but the
artists in the every scene staged well there was no fallacy during the
performance.
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