THEATRE: The Prophet and The Poet

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Date/Time
Date(s) - 15/05/2015
7:30 pm

Location
Alliance Francaise de Bangalore

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THEATRE: The Prophet and The Poet

7:30 pm | 15th of May | Alliance française auditorium

The Prophet and the Poet is an original play developed in Bangalore Little Theatre. It is based on the exchange of letters and articles between Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore over 25 years, with the Indian freedom struggle as the backdrop. The letters reveal how the two personalities differed significantly on many matters, including the form and content of the freedom movement. The differences widened over the years. However, they maintained genuine respect and love for each other in spite of the deep differences.

Bangalore Little Theatre was privileged to be invited to stage the opening shows of the play at the places hallowed by Gandhi and Tagore in their lifetime – Sabarmati Ashram, Santiniketan (Visva Bharati) and Thakurbadi-Jorasanko (Rabindra Bharati).

There have been over 55 performances of the play since its opening all over India and abroad. The play has had productions outside India as well. In 2014 Prasar Bharati commissioned a tele-film of the play. The film was telecast over the Independence Day week-end and on Gandhi Jayanti.

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