Author: Pranav Gupta

Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee is a fictionalized account of the “Scopes Trial,” where a high school teacher was convicted for teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution to his sophomore class which went against the Tennessee Law in the 1920s. The play was published in 1955 during the age of…

“Noises Off,” a sex farce by Michael Frayn is skilfully adapted into a motion picture by director, Peter Bogdanovich. What I found unique and quite central to this work’s appeal was the use of the concept of having “a play within a play,” or based on the movie I saw, rather “a play within a movie.”…

Stories come from strange and unexpected places. Mine came from another boy’s life. I didn’t know it then. I only know, in hindsight, how his story somehow became mine. A boy was born and he became himself. I still remember seeing this little boy sitting all alone, playing all by himself while I was springing…