SARATH CHANDRANNEW DELHI, Dec. 22 -- At a time when societies across the world are grappling with the friction between tradition and change, theatre veteran M K Raina's latest production "Pret" arrives as a disturbing and deeply relevant intervention.
Pret is a Hindi adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's landmark 1881 play Ghosts, translated by noted scholar and playwright Nemi Chandra Jain.
For Raina, revisiting Ghosts is not an act of nostalgia but of urgency. "Contemporary," he explains, "is the confrontation between new ideas, new discoveries and new beliefs against old beliefs."Written at a time when Europe was being intellectually shaken by Darwin's Origin of Species, Freud's emerging psychology and Marx's Communist Manifesto, Ibsen's play q...