I am very happy to announce the official slaying of a monster play. After battling for... (hold your breath) ... six years, I've finished my play. It's called "Ultimate Kurukshetra" and at one point went by the names of "Warsong" and "Forgotten Song..."
I started this play in mid 2003 right after graduating and after much staggering around, much confusion, much fatigue and much suffering... It's done!
I must have thrown the play into the dustbin at least ten times and fished it out the same number of times to restart work on it. (This is of course excluding the times I merely fished it out of the dustbin and put it right back in again.)
It's been a hell of a journey and I've written a pile of plays in the interim. In fact chronologically, it's right back there with Square root of Minus One.
The final strike happened at Adishakti in Pondycherry, where I parked arse at the Sangam house residency for 2 weeks and pinned the play down on paper once and for all! I also did an informal reading with the extremely sporting actors there and was happy to hear the results... which mostly consisted of laughter in the right places. A huge thanks to all of them.
Right... I'm so glad this is off my back. I'm letting it lie for a while, doing a light polish in a few months and then throwing it out of the house to fend for itself. Yipee! I'm off to celebrate for a day before I run back into rehearsal for a Dancing on Glass show on the 18th.
No rest for the wicked I tell you!
Gautam, since you're probably the only dude reading this, I'm happy to tell you that diving into the Mahabharata and coming out alive is possible.
And Arghya, who will probably never read this, keep at it. You're real close.
And to all the sleepless writers out there... Forge on, my friends forge on!
