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If it was a woman’s world
Updated On: 27 February, 2024 07:04 AM IST | Mumbai | Suprita Mitter
A city theatre group will present playwright Vijay Tendulkar’s first English play, which is a sequel to his 1972 classic Sakharam Binder
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The Fifth Woman after being freed from everything by death
It`s midnight, and the winter chills have set in. A woman who is unconscious and frothing at the mouth has been rushed to the hospital. Two men who are later identified as Sakharam and Dawood have accompanied her. This is the opening scene of His Fifth Woman, the first play that the celebrated Marathi playwright Vijay Tendulkar wrote in English. Director Lokesh Varma and his team at Darakht Theatre Company, have just taken a break from rehearsals ahead of their performance on Thursday when we ask him why he chose one of Tendulkar’s lesser-known works instead of the more popular, Shantata! Court Chalu Aahe, Sakharam Binder or Ghashiram Kotwal.
“I have been a reader of Marathi plays, and Vijay Tendulkar has been one of my favourite playwrights. His works had an interesting take on the identity of a woman in Indian society. His Fifth Woman is a sequel to his famous play Sakharam Binder. This was written in 2004 specifically for the Vijay Tendulkar Festival in New York, and it’s one of the plays he wrote in less than two weeks,” says Varma.
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