Satyagraha

April 16, 2007

Philip Glass’s opera about the early life of Gandhi is being staged at the Coliseum in London. More here and here and here. Tim Ashley writes in the Guardian:

Phelim McDermott’s staging, undertaken in collaboration with the theatre company Improbable, is also a thing of wonder. The gods of the Hindu pantheon rub shoulders with ordinary humanity. Hope is born from deprivation as sheets of corrugated iron and vast quantities of newsprint are transformed into the symbols of a new order. The ending is very stark: Gandhi and King are suddenly seen against a vista of threatening clouds, an intimation of the impending assassination of both by the forces they opposed. Above all, however, the whole thing serves as a monumental affirmation of human dignity at a time when many have begun to question its very existence - and for that, we must be infinitely grateful.

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    Comment by Mohit Kumar — April 16, 2007 @ 7:08 am

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    Comment by Uma — April 19, 2007 @ 4:22 pm

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