June 26, 2010 • Sat • 7:30pm • Orvis Auditorium • Free to All
Andha Yug, Dharamvir Bharati`s critically acclaimed play taken from the Indian epic Mahabharata, was translated into English by Alok Bhalla and is published by Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing for the first time in the United States.
The play is one of the most significant of post-Independence India.
Andha Yug takes place on the last day of the Great Mahabharata War. The once-beautiful city of Hastinapur is burning, the battlefield beyond the walls is piled with corpses, and the few survivors huddle together in grief and rage, blaming the destruction on their adversaries, divine capriciousness-anyone or anything except their own moral choices.
Andha Yug explores our capacity for moral action, reconciliation, and goodness in times of atrocity and reveals what happens when individuals succumb to the cruelty and cynicism of a blind, dispirited age.
View theatre production excerpts from Andha Yug complete with visual images from the Mahabharata and Gamelan music. Translator Alok Bhalla will introduce the performance and play a role as well. A question and answer session will follow the performance.
The Manoa Foundation, the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art, Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing, Hawaii Council for the Humanities, with additional support from the "We the People" initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts
For more information call 956-8246
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