- 168 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Lions and Tigers
About this book
Based on the true story of her great uncle and freedom fighter Dinesh Gupta, Lions and Tigers is Tanika Gupta's most personal play yet. It charts Dinesh Gupta's emotional and political awakening as this extraordinary 19 year old pits himself against the British Raj.
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Information
Characters
Dinesh Gupta | Ranges from 16 years to 19 years of age. Bengali revolutionary. |
Badal Gupta | Young man. Ranges from 15 years of age to 18. Revolutionary. |
Binoy Bose | Bengali young man. 21-year-old revolutionary. Medical student. |
Kamala | Dinesh’s childhood friend and sister-in-law. Two years older. |
Jyotish | Dinesh’s older brother. Lawyer. |
Mahatma Gandhi | Known as ‘Bapuji’. Indian politician and spiritual leader. 61 years old. |
Jawaharlal Nehru | Indian politician. 40 years old. |
Subhash Bose | Known as ‘Netaji’. Indian politician. Early thirties. |
Charles Tegart | Chief Commissioner of Police of Calcutta. Red-haired Irish man from Enniskillen. Early forties. |
Bimala | Middle-aged Indian woman. Recruiter and Mastermind behind revolutionaries. |
Swann | Chief Superintendent of Alipore Jail. Irish. |
Other characters
Lord Birkenhead | Viceroy of India |
Lord Irwin | Viceroy of India |
An ensemble (men and women, Asian and European) playing an assortment of characters: Watchman, Colonel Davis, prison guards, other prisoners, Police, Bengal volunteers.
The play takes place over the period of 1927–1931 in India.
All the letters in this play are accurate copies of original correspondence by Dinesh Gupta who wrote 92 letters from prison over a six-month period. The letters by Nehru, Gandhi and Bose are also verbatim.
NB
Whenever we see DINESH he is moving or shifting from one foot to the other, restless and unable to settle like a teenager, full of boyish energy – jumping up, moving swiftly and laughing or eating with great gusto. Quick movements and quick temper and a big appetite.
Whenever we see MAHATMA GANDHI, he is sitting on the floor. He makes things, spins his spinning wheel, sews his clothes, always close to the earth and has slow, but deliberate movements. He is 61 years old but fit and thin. He has a power and control over the younger men in the play. He is always wearing homespun dhoti/loin cloth and he is often bare chested.
Whenever we see NEHRU, he is sitting on a chair or hovering uncertainly, indecisively between GANDHI and BOSE. He always has a pen and paper in his hands, writing things down or reading proposals and letters. He wears the Nehru jacket (simple, homespun) churidar (straight legged trousers) and cap on his head and he always looks smart.
Whenever we see BOSE, he is striding, standing, full of an angry manly energy. He declaims and seems full of passion but at times looks exhausted and overwrought. At the beginning of the play he is wearing bright-coloured ku...
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Production Credits
- A Brief Timeline by Milli Bhatia
- Lions and Tigers
- Historical Notes on Characters
- Dinesh Gupta’s Letters