When the dead refused to get buried!

A play titled

Bury the Dead

was recently staged at

Bhartendu Natya Akademi

.

Irwin Shaw

in 1936 wrote the play with the same name and it was translated into Hindi by Veda Rakesh. The play was directed by Surya Mohan Kulshreshtha. "This play written by Irwin is about opposing the war. The whole world is facing violence because of political reasons. There is violence in disguise of religion and nationality. In this time period, this play is contemporaneous," shared Surya Mohan Kulshreshtha.

Manjari Srivastava

(L) and Tanya Bharadwaj (BCCL/ Vishnu Jaiswal)
The play was a story of six soldiers who rose from the dead and refused to be buried. They only thing they demanded was the end of the war. The government in the play, does everything to stop the soldiers’ stubbornness but fails. Even the family members of each soldier persuade them to rest in peace, but all efforts go in vain.
"This play is a must watch play for today’s generation. It gave a strong message which was clear to the audience," said Prateek, a part of the audience.

(L) Priyanka Singh (R) Rajesh Kumar and Privendra Singh (BCCL/ Vishnu Jaiswal)
Shubham Tiwari, Vikesh Bajpayee, Suraj Pratap Singh,

Shivam

Singh, Sachin Jaisal and Saurabh played the dead soldiers in the play and earned appreciation for their acting by the audience. Other actors in the play included Shubham Singh, Ritesh Asthana, Sandeep Kumar, Avinash and Ramesh Saini among others.
— Saad Abbasi

(L) Rajesh Agarwal (R) Sanjay and Gunjan Jain (BCCL/ Vishnu Jaiswal)

(L) Sadaf Jafar (R) Krishna and Vilayat Jafri (BCCL/ Vishnu Jaiswal)

(L) Sangam Bahuguna (C) Surya Mohan Kulshreshtha (R) Tulika Kapoor (BCCL/ Vishnu Jaiswal)

(L) Urmil Kumar Thapliyal (R) Vinita Naiear (BCCL/ Vishnu Jaiswal)

(L) Aryan (R) Jyoti Sinha (BCCL/ Vishnu Jaiswal)