About The Event
Kaumudi (Moonlight) - a play in Hindi - is about a rite of passage.
Using the moonlit timeless night on which Krishna delivered knowledge to Arjuna as its central trope, Kaumudi explores the dynamics between an estranged father-son duo who play Eklavya’s ghost and Abhimanyu respectively, in a theatre in late 1960’s Allahabad, over three days - the last three performances of a great actor who has nearly lost his sight and, in so doing, the play brings to light the ghosts of caste-based injustices, the passing over of knowledge from a father to a son, a thespian to an upstart, the banality and beauty of art, and how an efficient mode of production ultimately replaces a lesser efficient mode.
The play is inspired by two texts: Anand’s Malayalam Novel’Vyasam Vigneswaram’ and Jorge Luis Borges’ essay ‘Blindness’. men…squabble about the choicest of seats. Because each one’s claim is the greatest, and the most fundamental. And in…..just about anywhere, there is never enough room for everyone.
