The Unwed Mother & Other Plays

The five plays anthologized in this volume offer five different varieties of modern Indian plays. The first play, A Play about a Play dramatizes the plight of a rebel artist, a playwright who undergoes severe tribulations for his bold stance in defying the concept of modern bureaucratic power. The Hoodlum aims at reconstituting a human value that has withered away since long under the current economic and spiritual depression. Post Office: Kamalpur is a play without a heroine and it dramatizes the moral erosion in post independence rural India. Funny and tragic at the same time, the couple in The Frog Story opt for a world of unreality out of fear for the unbearable real. The Unwed Mother is Kunti, the great mother of five quasi-divine Pandavas.