THE POST OFFICE BY RABINDRANATH TAGORE FOR HIS 150 th BIRTH ANNIVERSARY – THE NEHRU CENTRE & THE BRITISH LIBRARY 2011
Front: left to right: Jyoti Goel, Noah Brookes, Valerie Doulton (Director)
Back left to right: Harmage Singh Kalirai, Lawrence Anthony, Amerjit Deu, Nicola Tagoe (flute), Edward Halsted
The Live Literature Company
Presents
The Post Office by Rabindranath Tagore
In Celebration of his 150th Birth Anniversary
At The British Library Theatre
Performances: May 13th 6.30 p.m. May 14th 2.30 p.m. Booking 01937 546 546
Director: Valerie Doulton
Performing Artists: Amerjit Deu, Edward Halsted, Harmage Singh Kalirai, Jyoti Goel,
Lawrence Anthony, Vidhya Ravichan, Noah Brookes, Richard Cole (Radha Mohan), Nicola Tagoe.
Picture showing Val’s concept for ‘The Post Office’ production, with the window behind the child’s bed, and the screen in the window for the Indian Shadow Puppetry sequences.
At the heart of this play is a young boy whose imaginative life is celebrated, and who gives Joy to those he meets as the story of the play unfolds even though he has a terminal illness and is facing death. Mixing simplicity with sophistication, the play’s universal appeal has made it a world classic. Gandhi was spellbound by the play in Calcutta in 1917. Anita Desai called it, ‘as modest as a dewdrop, as profound as the ocean’.
