World Theatre Day 2022: Take a look at these 5 must-watch dramas

On World Theatre Day, feast on these timeless stories that mirror our social and cultural realities.

Watch Zee Theatre offerings like, 'Court Martial,'  'Wrong Turn,' 'Bombed,'  'Where did I leave my Purdah?',  'Kahaani Mitra Ki' and 'Love'   From Aeschylus to Shakespeare to the story-tellers of today, there exists an unbroken continuum of stories  that help us to not just escape this world but also see its realities. On World Theatre Day, Zee Theatre celebrates this very legacy of theatre as a storyteller, and a chronicler of  social, cultural, political and spiritual truths, with a spread of incisive, insightful and thought-provoking plays across multiple genres and themes. Here is an overview of the stories that are both contemporary and timeless:

Court Martial

At a time when caste-based prejudices were not  widely addressed in the arts, Swadesh Deepak, one of the most respected contemporary playwrights, novelists and short-story writers, wrote 'Court-Martial' in 1991.  This searing play is considred to be a pathbreaking comment on caste discrimination. 'Court Martial' tells the story of a junior ranked army man, Ramchander, who inexplicably picks up his gun one day and  shoots down two of his senior officers. His defense lawyer Vikas Roy senses that this is not just an open-and-shut case, decides to dig deeper into the  motive behind  the crime and stumbles  upon a truth that shocks him. One of the most performed  plays in contemporary  Hindi literature,  ‘Court Martial’ is  a taut legal drama, an exploration of the justice system and the study of an unequal society.  

Directed by Sourabh Shrivastava and Karwarkar Bhavika, the play stars Rajeev Khandelwal, Govind Pandey, Bhagwaan Tiwari,  Saksham Dayma and Swapnil Kotriwar. It  will be screened on Dish and D2H Rangmanch Active and Airtel Spotlight. 

Wrong Turn