Abyss

I started reading this play after dinner a few days back - a windy night - a dark night - a rain splattered night. I thought the mood of the play would go well with the ominous night outside. Well, it did! It's helluva a play! I finished it one sitting - a couple of hours after midnight. The rain and the winds had stopped - time for contemplation indeed! At one level the play is a situational murder thriller, at another level it is a political thriller and at quite another level it brings out the key conflicts of ethics and modernity through the dramatic interplay of characters and events. The dialogues are as crisp as it can get. It is a highly doable play - a good commercial production would be as excellent to watch as it was to read. Rush readers and theater workers - a must buy and a must read!

The play creates labyrinths of greed and lust. A suspenseful family play drawn in the backdrop of land for agriculture versus industry controversy, viscousness of inheritence, egotism, opportunism and battles over property rights is very entertaining to read. The flow in the 2 acts before and after the interval merge to create an impact of a growing storm.

A spectacular thriller! The craft of enmeshing State Politics, Family Politics over inheritance and ethics of an author resulting in a gruesome murder followed by an incisive investigation and detection of the killer is very well achieved. The book races through a swarthy jungle like a hungry cheetah! The interrogation scenes are the most well written.

A spectacular read. A roller-coaster ride of ferocious emotions set amidst scheming characters. A verbose play. Although the dialogues are crisp and tight. The ending could have been better. The first half of the play dragged a bit more than it was required. This is very good cinema material. The screenplay will require less of dialogues.

A grand read! Fast, dark, compelling and taut ... spinechilling especially when the murderer is caught in a web of smart interrogations. Takes at the most 4 hours to finish in 1 sitting ... not possible to read it in multiple rounds.