![]() ![]() In these times, I feel, this play of Irwin Shaw is as contemporary as it was when he wrote it. Today violence, terror and war are being justified in the name of religion and nationalism. The near and dears of the soldiers go through extreme trauma emotionally, socially and financially. The play also conveys the unlived dreams of dead soldiers, and those whom they leave behind to pay the price of war. The play boldly opposes the use of the common man as fodder for war and violence, to fulfil the personal gains of a few people. Written in 1936 after the First World War, Irwin Shaw’s play Bury the Dead is an anti-war story. In the end the general tries to blow them with a machine gun but the corpses come out of their graves and stand amidst the people, thus underlining the importance of life, and drawing the attention towards the horrors of war generated by sheer greed. The women from their homes are called to convince them but that too doesn’t work. The corpses say that they wish to live… the life of a farmer, of a son, with friends, with their beloved… enjoying nature, relationships and beauty that this life is endowed with. ![]() that wars are fought and the common man dies to feed the ambitions, business and greed of a handful of power-hungry people. ![]() These dead soldiers have their own logic i.e. Suddenly, these soldiers rise and refuse to be buried. On the aforesaid day six soldiers who were killed two days ago are being buried in the battlefield. This is a story of an unknown place and time where a war is being fought for the past two years. Adapter & Director: Surya Mohan Kulshreshtha ![]()
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