Five Plays: Kamala, Silence! The Court in Session, Sakharam Binder, The Vultures, Encounter in Umbugland

Language: English
Pages: 380

About The Book
This volume brings together five critically acclaimed plays, each with a distinct character and message. Kamala is an indictment of the success-oriented male society where women are mere steppingstone for the achievement of men; Silence! The court is in Session combines social criticism with personal tragedy; Skharam Binder explore the complications of human nature, two necessary components of which are sex and violence; and The Vulture depicts the economic and moral degeneration of a family. Encounter in Umbugland is a political satire.
About The Author
Vijay Tendulkar (1928-2008) was a leading Indian playwright, movie and television writer, literary essayist, political journalist, and social commentator. He has more than fifty publication to his credit. Several of his plays have become in many Indian languages. Recipient of numerous prestigious award such as the Padma Bhusan, the Vishnudas Bhave Memorial Award, and the Ketha Chudamani Award, for successfully raising social issue through his plays, Tendulkar was one of the greatest playwrights of our times.
Introduction
Vijay Tendulkar has been in the vanguard of not just Marathi but
Indian theatre for almost forty years. Beginning his career as a
dramatist in the mid-fifties, this prolific writer has twenty-eight
full length plays, twenty-four one-act plays, and eleven children's
dramas to his credit, a good number of which have been
translated and produced in major Indian languages. His Silence!
the Court is in Session earned him a place among leading Indian
playwrights in the late sixties while his Ghasiram Kotwal won him
international fame in the mid-seventies. Winner of several
national and international awards and fell