A Passage to India
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 2, 2004
Closed Nov 6, 2004
Opened Nov 2, 2004
Closed Nov 6, 2004
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Running Time:
2hr. 45min.
(includes 1 intermission)
2hr. 45min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Shared Experience presents A Passage to India, the London-based company's take on novelist E.M. Forster's masterful evocation of the Indian and British states of mind during the waning days of the Raj. The premise seems harmless enough: three recent English arrivals, eager to befriend Indians, stumble upon the equally enthusiastic Dr. Aziz. Despite the inevitable raised eyebrows and overt racism, he soon becomes their valued companion and guide. It all goes terribly wrong during a trip to the Marabar caves. Accusations of rape, later recanted, incite virulent reactions, forever dashing the illusion of friendship and foreshadowing the fierce political conflict soon to come.
Adapted by Martin Sherman (Tony nominee for Bent) and directed by Nancy Meckler, A Passage to India thrusts Forster's still-potent themes of suspicion, racial hatred, snobbery, and repressed sexuality into stark relief.
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When E.M. Forster published Howard's End, the novel that guaranteed his ranking among first-rate English novelists of the 20th century, he prefaced it with his famous "only connect" epigraph. By 1924, when he brought out A Passage to India, he clearly despaired of anything approaching truly successful connection among people -- no matter how earnest they are. Undoubtedly, it's for this reason that an air of melancholy hangs like a stifling heat wave over the revered author's work and over the Shared Experience stage adaptation that director Nancy Meckler has given an intriguing gloss. The metaphor that Forster chose to make his sorrowful point was India under British rule -- a subject that[...]