‘Seto Dharti’: A heavy story, carefully staged

Moving between past and present, the play brings Tara’s silenced life into a powerful theatrical form.

Amar Nyaupane’s ‘Seto Dharti’ carries a legacy, a literary gravity, that makes its projection onto the theatre stage quite a task. This externalisation of the Madan Puraskar-winning novel offers the characters a physical presence through an ambitious and delicate undertaking.