Indigo Giant
Indigo Giant
Indigo Giant
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Indigo Giant

Ben Musgrave

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Indigo Giantis a gripping, haunting new drama inspired by Dinabandhu Mitra's trail-blazing Indigo Mirror, a play that shook colonial India.
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31-May-2024
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1859. A field in Kanaipur, Bengal.

Life-loving Sadhu Charan, an indigo farmer, is newlymarried to Kshetromani, a woman with visions of the
future. At first, all is idyllic. But when the new Britishplanter Rose arrives, full of strange desires, the
creeping malignancy of the indigo system begins tostrangle their happiness.

During the British Raj, to meet the world's insatiabledesire for blue, vast swathes of the Bengali countryside were given over to the cultivation ofthe indigo plant. The atrocities committed by Britishplanters triggered an extraordinary revolution thatchanged Bengal forever.

Indigo Giant is a gripping, haunting drama byaward-winning playwright Ben Musgrave, inspired byDinabandhu Mitra's trail-blazing Indigo Mirror, a playthat shook colonial India. With songs in English and Bangla by Leesa Gazi.


CASTING: 10 actors (5 male, 4 female, 1 any gender) plus chorus

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1859. A field in Kanaipur, Bengal.

Life-loving Sadhu Charan, an indigo farmer, is newlymarried to Kshetromani, a woman with visions of the
future. At first, all is idyllic. But when the new Britishplanter Rose arrives, full of strange desires, the
creeping malignancy of the indigo system begins tostrangle their happiness.

During the British Raj, to meet the world's insatiabledesire for blue, vast swathes of the Bengali countryside were given over to the cultivation ofthe indigo plant. The atrocities committed by Britishplanters triggered an extraordinary revolution thatchanged Bengal forever.

Indigo Giant is a gripping, haunting drama byaward-winning playwright Ben Musgrave, inspired byDinabandhu Mitra's trail-blazing Indigo Mirror, a playthat shook colonial India. With songs in English and Bangla by Leesa Gazi.


CASTING: 10 actors (5 male, 4 female, 1 any gender) plus chorus

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