Kaumudi: a play about a rite of passage

Indian Ensemble and Riad Mahmood Education and Arts Foundation present the Hindi play Kaumudi, which has been written and directed by Abhishek Majumdar. The play is about a rite of passage, and uses the moonlit timeless night on which Krishna delivered knowledge to Arjuna as its central theme.
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, In doing so, 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.
The play is being staged at Ranga Shankara on between April 8 and 12 at 7.30 pm, and on April 13 at 3.30 and 7.30 pm.