A scene from The Big Fellow A scene from The Big FellowWhen Irish playwright, director and actor Declan Gorman arrived in India with the “Revolution Tour”, he had “no real knowledge of the attack on free speech here. (In The Big Fellow), O’Connor, who was neither a historian nor a political journalist, wrote a biography of Collins as ‘an act of reparation’. What was the conflict between O’Connor and Collins that appealed to you in The Big Fellow? I think the play has resonance for any person in India interested in the history of colonialism and the challenges of post-colonial independence. The Big Fellow does not sanctify the revolutionaries nor pretend, as our masters and propagandists did, that an ideal republic emerged from glorious rebellion.

Source: Indian Express November 21, 2017 20:05 UTC