{"product_id":"eclipse","title":"Eclipse","description":"\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePraise\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout the Playwright\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA young Singaporean man is making a journey to his father’s birthplace in Hyderabad, Pakistan. With him are his father’s ashes. As he makes the arduous trip, he retraces the original journey made by millions of people — including his parents and grandparents — in 1947, during the partition of India and Pakistan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA play that looks at three generations of men struggling with their dreams and their journeys, \u003cem\u003eEclipse \u003c\/em\u003eis an intimate look at personal stories affected by historical events.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst staged to critical acclaim as a short play by Scotland’s 7:84 Theatre at Traverse Theatre, \u003cem\u003eEclipse \u003c\/em\u003ewas developed into a full-length production and presented in Singapore as a Fringe Highlight of the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2008.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"This one-man show was deeply rooted in a sense of time and place, and Sharma brought even audience members with little knowledge of partition in India and Pakistan into the events with carefully layered exposition.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003e—British Theatre Guide\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Absorbingly told by Umar Ahmed, Eclipse suggests that ancestral memory is never as meaningful as the allegiances of everyday life.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003e—The Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"(Playwright Haresh Sharma) has demonstrated a deftness and maturity in scriptwriting, a deeper inquiry into life and humanity, as well as an evident progress in terms of his creations.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Lianhe Zaobao\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHaresh Sharma\u003c\/strong\u003e is Resident Playwright of The Necessary Stage and co-Artistic Director of the annual M1 Singapore Fringe Festival. To date, he has written about 100 plays. One of these,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eOff Centre\u003c\/em\u003e, was selected by the Ministry of Education as a Literature text for ‘N’ and ‘O’ Levels, and republished by The Necessary Stage in 2006. In 2008,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eInterlogue: Studies in Singapore Literature, Vol. 6\u003c\/em\u003e, was published by Ethos Books. Written by Prof David Birch and edited by A\/P Kirpal Singh, it presents an extensive investigation of Haresh’s work over the past 20 years. A collection of Haresh’s plays was also translated into Mandarin and published as \u0026lt;\u0026lt;哈里斯·沙玛剧作选\u0026gt;\u0026gt; by Global Publishing. In 2010, Epigram Books published\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThose Who Can’t, Teach\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaresh was awarded Best Original Script for\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFundamentally Happy\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGood People\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGemuk Girls\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eduring the 2007, 2008 and 2009 Life! Theatre Awards respectively. In 2010, the abovementioned plays were published by The Necessary Stage in the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTrilogy\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003ecollection. Most recently, two collections of short plays by Haresh,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eShorts 1\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eShorts 2\u003c\/em\u003e, were published as well. In 2011, Haresh became the first non-American to be awarded the prestigious Goldberg Master Playwright by New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. In 2014, Haresh was awarded the prestigious S.E.A. Write Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"The Necessary Stage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32123123269745,"sku":"9789810915346","price":15.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0041\/products\/Eclipse-by-Haresh-Sharma-01.jpg?v=1602758766","url":"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/products\/eclipse","provider":"Epigram","version":"1.0","type":"link"}