The Game: One-Act Play - Tapa blanda

An English translation from the Bengali one-act play Khela which was written in 1996, The Game emerges out of two painful experiences of modern industrial life. One is the unbearable loneliness of ageing people and the other is the growing commodification of everything including human values. A play that combines pathos with irony, it presents the insensitive market forces that pretend to supply the emotional needs of man.

Dr Sisir Kumar Das is a distinguished Bengali playwright, with more than twenty plays to his credit. He received the Best Playwright award from the West Bengal Natya Akademi in 1996. His plays have been staged by many theatre groups in Delhi and Calcutta including the famous Bahurupi .