The Father and the Assassin

Nathuram Godse tells his own story: from devoted follower of Mahatma Gandhi, through his radicalisation as a Hindu nationalist, to their tragic final encounter in Delhi in 1948. Over thirty years of India's fight for independence, the play traces the making of an assassin, exploring how a man who once worshipped a leader of non-violence came to murder him. Anupama Chandrasekhar's darkly comic history play examines oppression, extremism, and the thin line between devotion and destruction.