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On Being with Krista Tippett
A short play about a sick child, Amul, confined to his room, who longs for the outside world. The post office symbolizes his yearning for connection and freedom. The speaker discussed its production in the Warsaw ghetto and Paris before Nazi occupation, highlighting its profound impact despite its seemingly simple nature.
It's about this child, Amul who is very ill and his doctor has refused to allow him out of his room. He's confined to his bed in his room.
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Episode: [Unedited] Anita Desai with Krista Tippett
A short play about a sick child, Amul, confined to his room, who longs for the outside world. The post office symbolizes his yearning for connection and freedom. The speaker discussed its production in the Warsaw ghetto and Paris before Nazi occupation, highlighting its profound impact despite its seemingly simple nature.
It's about this child, Amul who is very ill and his doctor has refused to allow him out of his room. He's confined to his bed in his room.
And the watchman has yors him that the raja himself would soon be sending him a letter and almost longing for that vast and beautiful earth becomes intensified into his longing for that letter. It arrives and he's read.
It was produced in the Warsaw ghetto by a great child psychologist, Janusz Korszak who knew what was happening in Warsaw and chose this play to be dramatized acted over there.