Tales Reimagined - 13 Contemporary Plays for the New World  (English, Hardcover, Prasanna Vedula Peri)

Stories survive because they evolve. In this bold anthology of thirteen contemporary plays, ancient myths, classical frameworks, and timeless questions find fierce new resonance in a world shaped by climate catastrophe, artificial intelligence, fractured identities, and the poetry of everyday absurdities. Tales Reimagined is not just a salute to the art of storytelling—it is a call to reinvent it. A collision of the past and the possible, where Shakespeare's heroes and Vikram and Betaal return with contemporary dilemmas and sharper riddles, superheroes fight carbon instead of villains, and the fields of Kurukshetra echo in today’s borderlands. At its core lies the spirit of inquiry—the kind that dares to ask, What if? and Why not? These plays blend humour with heartbreak, irony with insight, and provoke as much as they entertain. They’re designed for classrooms and black boxes, literary circles and living rooms, offering students, teachers, performers, and seekers alike a script not just to stage—but to live by. This is theatre as mirror and movement. As question and conversation. As rebellion, reflection, and radical reimagination. So step forward. The curtain rises. Let the tales begin—again.