So, has the djinns appeared? Go and find out. Segal, descendant of a Mughal general, is exercising the ultimate revenge by playing an Anglo-Indian lady. As the play’s Dalrymple, Alter has never before met the author and has denied copying his mannerisms. “I have given the narrative its real sound and music, its characters their true lingo and accent.” His confidence springs from a cast that boasts of veteran actors Tom Alter and Zohra Segal. Rudra Deep Chakrabarty, the young, curly-haired director, has claimed to recreate the book’s most evocative moments. More than fifty actors, including real-life snake charmers, calligraphers, hijras and qawwals are strutting their stuff at the Indira Gandhi National Center for Arts – with the Maati Ghar monument, a synthesis of Mughal and modern architecture, as an apt backdrop.ĭoubting Thomases may wonder at the wisdom of transforming a city’s portrait into a two-hour play, but Dalrymple has given his blessings to this ambitious Dreamtheatre production. Those who relish William Dalrymple’s City of Djinns can re-live the book in open-air performances in which djinns are being summoned from the ruins. Author William Dalrymple’s classic portrait of Delhi has been adapted for the theatre.Īladdin’s lamp is out of the trunk.
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