Abhishek Majumdar Collected Plays: Dweepa; Pah'la; Djinns of Eidgah; Mukitidham; 9 Kinds of Silence

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In this, his first play collection published in English, Majumdar's work can be appreciated by new audiences as a focus of performance and study. With an introduction by long-time collaborator Sundar Sarukkai, the anthology cements his place as an important and necessary voice in contemporary drama. Internationally celebrated author and theatre maker Abhishek Majumdar has worked across the world as a playwright, theatre director, and scenographer. His plays capture the fragility of human lives trapped in war and other upheavals and in doing so present a wide range of theatrical experience. Infusing retellings of contemporary events with timeless themes, Majumdar threads together explorations of authoritarianism, radicalization, and the sense of belonging: both intimate and far-reaching in scope, these are plays that blend together the personal with the universal.

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Abhishek Majumdar is a playwright, theatre director, and scenographer. He is the ex artistic director and founder of two theatre companies, Indian Ensemble and Bhasha Centre for Performing Arts, both based out of Bangalore. As a writer, his theatre includes: Pha-La (Royal Court); The Djinns of Eidgah (Royal Court & Writers Bloc Festival, Mumbai/Hindu MetroPlus Theatre Festival, Bangalore/Hamilton Fringe Festival, Ontario); The Ocean (Royal Court); Pratidwandi [adaptation] (& Dharwad Theatre Festival), Lucknow 76 (& Alliance Francaise, Bangalore), Harlesden High Street (& Tara Arts), An Arrangement of Shoes (& Cock Tavern/Theatre503/Edinburgh Festival Fringe/Exeter Fringe Festival/Acoustic Arts Festival), Niharika, Dweepa (Ranga Shankara, Bangalore); Land of Ups & Downs (Headstart Academy, Bangalore); Linea Historica/The Prophet (Festival Internacionale de Dramaturgia, Buenos Aires); 399 (Climate Change Theatre Action).