

Since Benare happens to have left the room at this time, the others decide she will be placed on trial. Though the roles that most of them are slated to play remain essentially unchanged, there will be one very great change: a new defendant will be put on trial. Performance time is still a few hours away, so those who have made it decide to pass the time through improvisation this is also done to help Samant, who has to help fill in tonight, understand a courtroom’s proceedings.

Samant, a local village man, is there to help them into the hall they’ll be using for their evening show. Rawte, are not able to make it to the performance. Two members of the group, Professor Damle and Mr. Kashikar, a social worker, and his wife, who is doting but unable to give him children the pretentious actor, Karnik the lawyer, Sukhatme the science student, Ponkshe the vibrant and free teacher, Benare and the ward of the Kashikars and errand-boy of the troupe, Balu Rodke. As various members of the association arrive, important information about their backgrounds, present circumstances, and interrelationships are conveyed: there is Mr.

The SMTPA is composed of socially committed activists who try to raise awareness of issues of significance affecting members of their Indian community that might be overlooked in favor of more pressing concerns. Johnson on mock trial for his role in the proliferation of atomic weaponry. The Sonar Moti Tenement (Bombay) Progressive Association is gathering to put American President Lyndon B.
