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...frequent viewer of student theater. I have the dubious distinction of attending all of one student production last year. Nevertheless, even I am impressed by the quality of acting and the gravity of the issues effectively addressed in the South Asian Association’s (SAA) production of Grave Affairs...
...production marks the stage premiere of Grave Affairs, a radio play written six years ago for the BBC by co-director John Mathew. The play takes place in the fictitious village of Matoor, in the real district of Kerala at the tip of southwest India. Matoor’s population includes people of widely varying religious faiths—Hindus, Muslims and Christians—an assortment that makes for insecure relations and latent hostilities, not to mention some interesting graveyards...
...holy property for which he is responsible. His irascible and illiterate overseer, Ahmed Koya (Krishnan Unnikrishnan ’02) does little to brighten his days. Their interactions, though, serve as a welcome source of comic relief. And while the characters’ quips and other references in Grave Affairs can be a bit esoteric, the program’s convenient glossary of Indian terms provides valuable assistance to the audience...
Rachel’s insistence on unearthing her grand-uncle’s grave, which had been concealed under a tree in the Muslim cemetery, has dire consequences—especially since this grand-uncle was also an excommunicated infidel, an “unbeliever.” Koya sees Rachel as a disobedient wench far too bold for her own good and insists that the gravestone be smashed and scattered to the four winds...
...that saw the Muslim Empire spread from Persia to Morocco. But, there is no call in the religion for a “glad heart” in war, as Douthat claims, no “war-like spirit.” The Koran proclaims fighting to be a grave sin, exceeded and justified only by the graver evil of oppression and tyranny...