Marx My Word

6 AUGUST, 7.30 PM

SHRI RAM CENTRE, DELHI

In the play, a curious, hoary Oxford don returns to India in search of answers to old questions. In Delhi, he meets two former students: a one-time centrist turned capitalist, and a wispy feminist turned social activist. Together, the three revisit a midsummer evening several decades ago in Oxford, “where questions were answered and answers were questioned,” and where a discussion of Jawaharlal Nehru’s legacy meandered into the politics of his grandson, Rajiv Gandhi. As the students debate whether Gandhi will become a symbol of hope or of dynastic elitism, they run up against the limits of their own selves, their personal politics and ideologies. Marx My Word marked the actor Tom Alter’s return to direction after a four-year break, with an elegant if somewhat predictably satirical production.

~ by Nikhil Pandhi