Barricade

<b>A political play staging the Nazi takeover of Germany with an eye on India.</b> <p/> Although Utpal Dutt is acknowledged as a trailblazer of post-Independence Indian theater English readers have not had access to the range and wealth of his drama. <i>Barricade</i> is a political play that stages the Nazi takeover of Germany in 1933 with an eye on India. Today the surge to power of far-right parties and fundamentalist fanaticism across the world means that the co-option of democracy and civil society that led to Nazi fascism can happen again--or indeed has already happened--granting <i>Barricade</i> its immediate urgency. Equipped with an introduction analyzing its historical context this translation of <i>Barricade</i> is also a very rare product in dramatic literature collating both the printed original as well as a documented performance of the production directed by Dutt.