Bhopal, Jan. 29 -- The short story of Saadat Hassan Manto "The Licence" was staged at Shaheed Bhavan Auditorium here on Tuesday.
The pay was directed by Jyoti Dubey and was performed by the artists of Raunak Social and Cultural Theatre troupe.
The play is based on a text written by Saadat Hasan Manto with certain references from German playwright Berthold Brecht's Berlin Stories, 'The Job'. Both these stories talk about the implication on people in an economy that is industrializing at a fast pace.
In the Job, an unemployed man finds place as a watchman in a factory, and this is united into another story by Manto, titled licence, a story of self employed Tongawala.The sudden death of the provider in both the stories drives the family to ...