Synopsis of the play

Germany, 1960.

 

Professor Rauch is busy in experiments. Showing him a tabloid-ad, Elsa Brinter reminds his follies.

 

Rauch thinks aloud:

Just one year back, an advertisement in newspaper from Kraftstudt Company asked orders to provide service in mathematical computing. Rauch twice got his equations brilliantly solved. That made him curious. He sniffed the association of that Kraftsdtut with Nazis. And so, he plunged into danger.

 

Rauch was right. It was the same man who used to invent torturing techniques in Nazi camps. But Kraftsdtut wanted Rauch to join his firm that captured scientists to compute causing their brain-death.

 

Rauch objected and got trapped. There was no escape. Then he, to destroy the firm, pretended to be their man. With the support of Elsa, he succeeded.

 

Kraftstudt Company got arrested. But they are indispensable for State’s domination. So Elsa chided Rauch for leaving them to Law.

 

And, History repeats the equations…

Director's Note

‘Change’ is the only thing constant.
But, whatever may be the colour of any ‘changed’ State, to protect the ‘stability of Nation’, it needs a machinery of domination. After Nuremburg Trail, some Nazi officers were well recruited by Soviet Union. Everywhere the scenario is same.

 

That’s why Dneprov’s story instigated me to work. Actually, we had to question the ‘change’. The ‘feel good living’ is still very painful where as our future seems to be obscure.

 

Scarcity of auditorium is the father of our being site-specific. We have worked a lot on a site to make it intimate to the audience as we consider them as a great part of our play. We act among them. They react among us. The morbidity of State’s domination is being thus shared. And now we can create that claustrophobia whatever auditorium/space we are provided with.

 

Hope, you support & share our thoughts on ‘Change’.