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Mahesh Dattani
Clearing the Rubble A Radio Play for Three Voices
PENGUIN BOOKS
Contents
About the Author
Clearing the Rubble A Radio Play for Three Voices
Copyright
PENGUIN BOOKS
COLLECTED PLAYS VOLUME TWO
Mahesh Dattani, born in Bangalore on 7 August 1958 studied in Baldwin s High School and St. Joseph s College of Arts and Science, Bangalore.
He has worked as a copywriter in an advertising firm and subsequently with his father in the family business. His theatre group Playpen was formed in 1984, and he has directed several plays for them, ranging from classical Greek to contemporary works. In 1986, he wrote his first full-length play, Where There s a Will , and from 1995, he has been working full-time in theatre. In 1998, he set up his own theatre studio dedicated to training and showcasing new talents in acting, directing and stage writing, the first in the country to specifically focus on new works.
Dattani is also a film-maker and his films have been screened in India and abroad to critical and public acclaim. His film Dance Like a Man has won the award for the Best Picture in English awarded by the National Panorama.
In 1998, Dattani won the Sahitya Akademi award for his book of plays Final Solutions and Other Plays , published by East-West Books Chennai, thus becoming the first English language playwright to win the award.
Dattani teaches theatre courses at the summer sessions programme of Portland State University, Oregon, USA, and conducts workshops regularly at his studio and elsewhere. He also writes plays for BBC Radio 4.
He lives in Bangalore.
Clearing the Rubble
A Radio Play for Three Voices
A Note on the Play
Following the earthquake in Bhuj in January 2001, Mahesh Dattani was commissioned by BBC Radio to write a play to be broadcast on the first anniversary of the tragedy.
Clearing the Rubble followed three people whose lives were affected by the earthquake. An English journalist in the region at the time of the catastrophe goes back to Bhuj a year later. He is trying to track a boy he had met when he was helping with the relief effort. We also hear the story of the boy s mother, herself trapped in the rubble.
Jeremy Mortimer (Jeremy Mortimer is Executive Producer, BBC Radio Drama.)
Clearing the Rubble was first broadcast on 17 January 2002 at 2.00 p.m. on BBC Radio 4 and repeated on 26 January 2002 on the BBC World Service. The play was directed by Jeremy Mortimer.
Cast for first production: TOBY Robert Glenister SALIM Adam Dean FATIMA Nina Wadia
Children at break time in school. (Track 8.)
SALIM (thought) . Rahul lost his left leg. Pasha lost his sight. Nilima lost her . . . I don t remember now, what she lost. Her teeth? Was it she with the bloody face? No, that was not her, that was . . . Who? And I lost my mother, my uncle, my aunts, my grandfather and my grandmothers . . . I have lost everyone now, except for Jeffrey. (Pause.) Poor Jeffrey. He tries so hard.
Fade out children. Bring in Kutch Express. (Interior. Track 25.)
JEFFREY (thought) . First Nora left me . . . we both wanted it I know but, she could have tried . . . harder . . . Then Jennifer. I was never there for Jennifer . . . I try hard to be there for Salim. Of course he is his mother s child. He will be, always.
Fade out Kutch Express as the Azan prayers fade in. (Track 2.39.)
FATIMA (thought) . Allah be merciful! It is time for my prayer. Forgive me, but I cannot face Mecca. I cannot move. My Allah, please forgive me! Please show compassion. Both my daughters are with you now. I am coming too. Take me away from this unjust world now. I will hold the bodies of my daughters till I follow them to your world. I have no more strength to call out to those people who help others but not us. I cry out for you now. Only in your world is there justice. I want to be in your world.
Fade out.
