This, perhaps is the first representation of a marginalized professional being presented on stage through an interview.
Do crematorium keepers become insensitive, watching bodies after bodies every day?
Their perspective on life?
The process of burial?
Through interruptions by colleagues, visits from policemen with unclaimed bodies, and the raw grief of mourners, the audience sees how death is both ordinary and extraordinary in this space.
The play moves between procedural details and deeply personal memories-rituals to ward off spirits, caste-based disparities in final rites, and the moment the Passwala's own parents passed away.
In his world, death is not an ending, but a constant-a job to be done, a witness to remain.
Come, watch how the custodians of death negotiate the fragile machinery of the living.
Listen to the Philosophy of life – and death – explored through pauses, muted dialogues,
resilience and routine gestures of a marginalized professional.
Although the setting of the play is Mumbai, the theme of life and death resonates across the universe. This play is particularly an eye-opener for those who never visit a crematorium, for various reasons, including fear!
