Mister Behram and other Plays

Gieve Patel

 

5.5 x 8.5 inches, 302 pp, 11 halftones. 0

ISBN : 9788170462286

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Gieve Patel’s plays are distinguished by their powerful emotional content, and the rich use of spoken language as a basic instrument of theatre. Family relationships, human possessiveness about property—material or human—and the aching and eternal search for love are the universal themes of these plays.

 

Excerpts from interviews with the playwright preface each of the plays, offering a lively commentary on the art of playwriting and Madhu Gadkari’s photographs of the productions eloquently evoke their atmosphere. 

Gieve Patel was born in 1940. Princes, his first play, was produced by Theatre Group, Bombay, in 1970. His later plays, Savaksa and Mister Behram, were produced in 1982 and 1987 respectively. He has published three books of verse: Poems (1966), How Do You Withstand, Body (1976) and Mirrored, Mirroring (1991) and his poems have appeared in several anthologies in India and abroad. A well-known painter, with paintings in public and private collections within and outside the country, Gieve Patel has also worked as a medical practitioner in rural and urban India.

 

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