Caligula, the Roman emperor, who succeeded Tiberius and preceded Claudius and ruled for less than four years (AD 37-41), remains mythic for his fanatical approach to power. The play, “Ek Soirachari Rajar Katha” is not a period piece i.e. a play concerned with a historical time. It has drawn from Camus' “Caligula” the concept of deification of emperors which was common to the pagan world, the Greek and Macedonian kings, including Alexander the Great, who ordered their priests to proclaim them Gods, as did the Caesars starting with Augustus.

In spite of restraining convention and law, the innately vicious or dangerously capricious autocratic tendency still exists. This enabled modern figures like Amin and Milosevic to indulge in ‘Caligula-ism’ – their dangerous whims and murderous eccentricities. Though it also meant that the only remedy for those who terrorized was assassination, "I (Caligula) am still alive!" (Caligula, tr. by Christopher Williams, 2007).

PLAY: EK SOIRACHARI RAJAR KATHA (Inspired by Albert Camus’ “Caligula”); LANGUAGE:BENGALI; ADAPTATION & PRODUCTION:SHUDRKA HYDERABAD; DIRECTION:SWAPAN MONDAL.

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