"JI SA'BJI" hindi play by Lushin Dubey at Shri Ram Centre, 4, Safdar Hashmi Marg > 1st & 2nd December 2010

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1st December : 8:00 pm 

2nd December : 7:30 pm

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Place : Shri Ram Center for Performing Arts ( SRCPA ), 4, Safdar Hashmi Marg, Mandi House, New Delhi-110001

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Event Details : JI SA'BJI by Lushin Dubey.

'Ji Sa'bji' is a play about the times we live in. It is a play that deals with the most noted terrorism in this country, and the blind response to it by the State and its people ( ie , us ). This is not just another play about Hindus and Muslims ; neither is it a play that touts to offer solutions to this pertinent conflict. It is a play that merely re-enacts a situation common enough in a terror-prone country like ours, and through the situation, illuminates - for us to see - how we become our own worst enemies. The Play is set in a city immediately after a bomb blast has taken place. It could be any city. ( After all, virtually every city in this country has been ravaged by a bomb blast.) A cop is convinced a dying old man holds the key to finding the terrorist who has been identified as the mastermind of the blast. But he has not an iota of proof.
So he forcibly enlists a young boy, who shares a special bond with the old man, to elicit the truth from the old an. But what is the young boy supposed to elicit from the old man, when the cop himself has no clue what it could be that the old man with holds? To begin with, does the old man know anything about the terrorist, someone he losttouch with years ago? Or, first of all, is the subject in question a terrorist at all, or have the cops made a mistake?
Ultimately, the play is about humanity. In that sense, the play rises above the subject of terrorism and embraces and explores the enduring bonds of love and friendship not between similar people, but between seemingly incompatible people. For it is that which is at the very core of the idea of Humanism.. is it not? When a dying old man and a teenage boy ( of different bakgrounds, sensibilities, beliefs, ..everything) come to share a special bond, it is the idea of humanism that triumphs, is it not? The play also conjures up powerful images. For instance, on one occasion, we see  the young boy and the supposed terrorist - the two faces of Islam – crouched side by side. The young boy has his little book of prayers before him, and the terrorist, his gun; and together, they offer Namaz to the intense wail of the azaan.'Ji Sa'bji' is a simple enough story, but a story that reveals all that plagues us in these difficult times. It seeks to make one or two dimple, pertinent points ; things that we seem to have lost sight of in the ensuing melee. And ultimately, the play is an indictment of all ; terrorists, state actors such asthe police, and us.

Direction : Lushin Dubey
Conceived by; Lushin Dubey and Nicholas Kharkongor
Produced by;  Lushin Dubey
Written for Stage by ; Nicholas Kharkongor.
Translated into Hindi ( in excerpts) by; Mrs Savitry Dubey and Lushin Dubey
Music; Rahul Ram and Amit Kilm from 'Indian Ocean'
Cast;Currently casting...Jasbir Malik, Suvrat joshi, Daman, Anirudh Nair and
Lushin Dubey, and dancers from Ashley Lobo's danceworx
Sets; - Shibani Pur
Lights -Milind
Sound- Sidhanth
Costumes- Dolly Ahluwalia
Production in charge- Gopa Kumar Nair

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