Makarand Sathe: Exit, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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A blistering collection of six plays by Makarand Sathe, charting the absurdities of the human condition across deep time, fractured metropolises, and the bureaucratic afterlife.

Operating with a radical, restless freedom, MakarandSathe's theater dismantles the architectures of power and myth. In Four Billion Amnesiacs , we are hurled into 3985 CE, a dystopian economy where human lifespan itself is traded as currency. Mr. Saptnekar's Child spirals into a fable of divine clowns and uncanny conceptions, upending our tidy notions of faith and biology. Time and space are routinely ruptured: Crossroads traps a city at a traffic signal terrifyingly suspended between two riots, mapping the everyday mechanics of complicity, while They Went Ahead deposits urbanites and farmers alike into a grimly comic purgatorial holding pen.

In Time and Time Again, Men Take to the Battlefield , the mythic duel of the Mahābhārata is dragged into the harsh light of collateral damage, voiced by a pregnant widow interrogating the cyclical butcheries of men. Finally, in Exit, an octogenarian couple awaits the end, their mortality subjected to the whims of a glitching celestial app. Laced with a pitch-black wit, Sathe's plays are profound philosophical inquiries into memory, violence, and the illusion of choice. A vital, uncompromising work of the contemporary avant-garde.