Us & Them - A Play In Hindi : Facebook Live Play Performance
July 14, 2020 8:16:15 PM IST MTG editorial
A play, written and directed by Asmit Pathare, performed by Vivek Kumar, Kaustav Sinha, Shruti Bijnoria and Zinnia Ranji, is about Nationalism through two contradicting metaphorical lenses - nation as people vs nation as land. In a place where Us and Them are two tribes and only a few yes-men survive.
Based on a lecture by feminist writer and academic Nivedita Menon, US AND THEM, is the story of a magician and his student. The student has too many questions and the magician all the answers. But then one question becomes too many and it all comes tumbling down. Tackling questions of identity and belonging, they become us and we become them. US AND THEM explores the magic of the binary where the possibility of a third is a crime.
