| AT A GLANCE | THE PLAY | CAST AND CREDITS |
| Kamani, 6.30 & 9.30 pm, Sat, 9 Jan English, 130 minutes Director: Naseeruddin Shah Playwright: Herman Wouk |
This play, based on a World War II novel, is a complex portrait of what war and its accompanying stress does to people. It deals with only that section of the novel that narrates the ordeal of Lt. Stephen Maryk when he, having relieved his Commanding Officer during a typhoon, is on trial for mutiny. As the play proceeds the plot becomes muddier with the ambivalent views expressed, none of them being the absolute truth. What is revealed, instead, are the fissures that appear in the psyches of men as they are called upon to do inhuman tasks. The play also questions the possibility of ‘Absolute Truth’ and asks who, given the inevitability of war, would be best suited to engage with it. This is not just a war play; rather, basing itself on the given that war is hell, it explores the question of its inevitability because of the way human nature is. | Kenith Desai: Lt. Barney Greenwald Rahil Gilani: Signalman Third Class Junius Hannaford Urban/ Orderly Parimal Aloke: Lt. Thomas Keefer/Stenographer Faizal Rashid: Dr. Forrest Lundeen Shashank Kaithan: Lt. Stephen Maryk/Judge Akshat Trivedi: Lt. Stephen Maryk/Judge Jayesh Kotwani: Lt. Thomas Keefer/Stenographer Gaurav Ghatnekar: Lt. (Jr. Grade) Willis Seward Kieth/ Judge Aseem Hattangadi: Lt. Com. Jack Chalee Darshan Gandas: Signalman Third Class Junius Hannaford Urban/Orderly Arvind Pandy: Capt. Randolph Southard Ankur Vikal: Lt. Com. Philip Francis Queeg Akash Dhar: Dr. Allen Winston Bird Karim Vakil: Judge Blakely Vijay Tilani: Lt. (Jr. Grade) Willis Seward Kieth/Judge Prakash Lad: Make-Up Bharat Malhotra: Music Ratna Pathak Shah: Lights Jairaj Patil: Producer |