Glance at Culture - A Play For the End of the World: Jai Chakrabarti on the Warsaw Ghetto, India, Cultural Exchange and Social Justice
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SHOW NOTES:
2:15 Chakrabarti\\u2019s inspiration for A Play For the End of the World
3:30 Rabindranath Tagore\\u2019s play The Post Office
8:00 memoir by survivor of Janusz Korczak\\u2019s orphanage titled The Last Korczak Boy
8:30 injustices in 1942 Warsaw\\xa0
10:00 The Post Office performed in 1940s Warsaw to uplift compared with exploitation through its performance in 1970s India\\xa0
11:15 Chakrabarti\\u2019s inspiration from Tagore\\u2019s play\\xa0
12:20 theme of intergeneration trauma in Chakrabarti\\u2019s book
13:20 Bessel van der Kolk\\u2019s The Body Keeps the Score and Rabbi Dr. Firestone\\u2019s Wounds Into Wisdom: Healing Intergenerational Jewish Trauma
14:30 assumption that gravity of the book would be 1942 Warsaw
16:00 research for book
17:15 Jhumpa Lahiri\\u2019s The Lowland
17:40 Lawrence Langer\\u2019s collection titled Art From the Ashes
18:25 character journaling process
19:30 questions asked of characters
21:00 reader feedback
22:30 value of art in times of conflict as a healing balm
23:30 Tagore poem translated into a Yiddish song in 1930s Warsaw
24:45 challenges of dual timelines in A Play For the End of the World
26:00 thematic repetition edited out
27:15 most revised scene during escape from train en route to Treblinka
28:30 social justice aspect of A Play For the End of the World
29:30 recommendation of collected short stories by Tagore
30:00 A Home In The World by Tagore
30:30 The Foreign Student by Susan Choi
30:50 The Lowland
31:40 use of a system in drafting a dual timeline novel
32:15 reason for writing story as a novel versus short story
33:30 death of Archbishop Desmond Tutu
33:40 music of Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masekela used to end apartheid
34:00 each piece of art can allow for conditions by which social change can occur
35:40 Playwright Safdar Hashmi whose theatre work in the 1960s and 70s directly advocated for economic and social improvement for the laborers of India
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\\xa9 Stephanie Drawdy [2024]