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 is a taut political drama based on the events leading up to one of the worst industrial catastrophes in history.