BHOPAL
Written by Rahul Varma
Directed by Basab Pradhan
Dec 3-8, 2024
Sunnyvale Theatre
Opens on Dec 3, 2024, on the 40th anniversary of the world's worst industrial disaster
"On the night of December 3rd 1984, Union Carbide's pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, exploded, engulfing the city in a billow of deadly poisonous fumes. Small children fell like flies, and men and women vainly scurried for safety only to collapse, breathless and blinded by the gas. By sunset, the death toll was 2,500. By the following day, numbers had no meaning. Bhopal had become the largest peacetime gas chamber in history."
- from the preface to Bhopal by Rahul Varma
This intense, hard-hitting play brings to life the human stories set against the worst industrial disaster the world has ever known.
Age 12+ | 110 min + intermission
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Cast
The Cast of BHOPAL
Standing (from l to r) – Sudipta Chatterjee (Devraj Sarthi), Vibeka Sen Sisodiya (Sonia Labonte), Havish Ravipati (Pascal Sauve), Mehul Raje (Madiha Akram).
Sitting (from l to r) – Shalini Ramachandran (Chief Minister), Sowmiya Ganeshkumar (Izzat Bai), Stefan Fisher (Warren Anderson).
Gallery
Photography by Pranav Koundinya
