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Book Synopsis1859. A field in Kanaipur, Bengal.
Life-loving Sadhu Charan, an indigo farmer, is newlymarried to Kshetromani, a woman with visions of the
future. At first, all is idyllic. But when the new Britishplanter Rose arrives, full of strange desires, the
creeping malignancy of the indigo system begins tostrangle their happiness.
During the British Raj, to meet the world's insatiabledesire for blue, vast swathes of the Bengali countryside were given over to the cultivation ofthe indigo plant. The atrocities committed by Britishplanters triggered an extraordinary revolution thatchanged Bengal forever.
Indigo Giant is a gripping, haunting drama byaward-winning playwright Ben Musgrave, inspired byDinabandhu Mitra's trail-blazing Indigo Mirror, a playthat shook colonial India. With songs in English and Bangla by Leesa Gazi.
CASTING: 10 actors (5 male, 4 female, 1 any gender) plus chorus
