“mahesh elkunchwar shanta gokhale”

In Flower of Blood and Reflection, Mahesh Elkunchwar presents two young men-or maybe they are one and the same-both loners from a small town lost in the metropolis. Verging on the Absurd, they bear traces of their origin in the life of the middle class in India today.... More

With The Wada Trilogy, Mahesh Elkunchwar achieves a feat unique to playwriting in this country: developing a cycle which moves between many registers to unfold the evolving history of a family in present-day India mirroring the social and cultural shifts and changes that mark the twentieth cent... More

In Party, Mahesh Elkunchwar takes a Chekhovian look at members of the creative set in an Indian metropolis, with their pretensions, rivalries, aspirations, and frustrations, even as they are stalked like a guilty conscience by Amrit, the one among them who chose to drop out of the set.... More

City Plays is a collection of three plays in the naturalistic mode, set within the four walls of a city apartment, throwing people into close contact, relationships unravelling under pressure. the moment of crisis in each case precipitated by an absent presence who is never seen on stage. Intense hu... More

A successful septuagenarian writer sets out to dictate his autobiography to a quizzical young scholar; but it remains unwritten.Different versions of the truth clash as he comes to confront an ego that he had never really known.... More

In this unusual Marathi play the playwright weaves a complex narrative with just four characters – Begum Barve, a smalltime female impersonator who has spent his life playing bit roles in the professional Marathi theatre of the early twentieth century, his exploitative employer, Shyamrao, and two ... More

Originally written in Marathi-now translated into English. A document of social change, striking in its authenticity. Looks at a family which was held together, but fill apart one to lured of a big city-a phenomenon so common in India.Paperback... More

In this widely performed play, a Marxist intellectual, facing an enquiry stands by his commitment, even as the forces against his rake up a past that is the story of humiliation betrayal and failure.Paperback... More