In whatever little we known about human history, bulls have been an integral part of the journey. The bull has been a companion of humans through their evolution over the ages. In fact, many literary works in Marathi, especially poems, have used the beast of labour to make a point about humanity. Late theatre personality
Sunil Kulkarni
, who was associated with the group
Lok Rangamanch
, had a huge collection of such poems and the group’s founding member, actor
Sayaji Shinde, was confident of something
worthwhile being made out of it.
'Baiil: Abolbala', which will be staged at Yashwantrao Chavan Natyagruha in Pune on December 23, is precisely that. Through the poems of
Bahinabai Chaudhary
,
Bhalchandra Nemade
, Vasant Sawant, Kavi Yashwant, Loknath Yashwant, Simon Martin and others, this play aims to bring out the animal aspect in humans and the humanity in the bull.
Baiil: Abolbala
, directed by Rajiv Mulye, takes a look at the socio-political, economic, familial and industrial establishments of humanity through a different perspective — that of the bull, a mute spectator of man’s transformation into what he is today.
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