A Kolkata garment worker is seduced by, then rebels against, the system that exploits him in this pacy, involving drama from Sonali Bhattacharyya. It’s not subtle, explicitly spelling out how factory closures were used to starve a workforce into accepting low wages and child labour in early-2000s India and drawing a broad, connecting line to the precarity of the contemporary Western gig economy.
But it’s also a compelling study of personal morality, directed with vigour by Milli Bhatia, from which I learned a great deal. It won the 2021 Political Playwrighting Award from Uncut Theatre, which co-produces the production with the Young Vic.
