Bhopal

On the night of December 3, 1984, Union Carbide’s pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, exploded, engulfing the city in a billow of deadly poisonous fumes. Small children fell like flies, men and women vainly scurried for safety like wounded animals, only to collapse, breathless and blinded by the gas. By morning, the death toll was over 500, by sunset, 2,500. By the following day, numbers had no meaning. That night, Bhopal became the largest peacetime gas chamber in history. The play reveals the human stories within the complex political and economic web that located a chemical plant in Bhopal and leads to human tragedy. It has been described as a taut political drama based on the events leading up to one of the worst industrial catastrophes in history. Although the play takes contemporary events as its subject, it does not feel like the stereotypical "political theatre." Rather, through telling the stories of its characters, the play reaches and connects with audiences on an emotional level.

Aadhe Adhure

In 1959, the iconic post-independence playwright Mohan Rakesh’s “AADHE ADHURE” was published which imprinted his name as the sculptor of modern Hindi theatre. This play deviated from the then prevalent themes based on mythology or historical events became immensely popular due to its stylistic freshness and the contemporary content. Realistic depiction of the middle class milieu, spoken fluency of the dialogue, thematic intensity protruding out of the simple structure, all this and many other features make this play a classic in Indian theatre.