By Hira Chettri Kalimnews (with additional inputs from Times of India): Breaking the world record for the longest play, the artists of Prerna Kala Manch (PKM) succeeded in setting a new world record by staging a series of marathon plays for over 33 hours at Nagari Natak Mandali Auditorium, Varanasi on Sunday evening. It may be recalled that `The Warp', written by Neil Oram and directed by Ken Campbell is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest play in the world. It was written as a series of 10 plays but performed in one continuous marathon. In this play that was staged in the UK in the late '80s, around 30 artists lived about a hundred characters in 29 hours. The PKM artists including Bhola Singh Rathore, Vivek Gupta, Harish Pal, Ajay Roshan, Mukesh Jhanjharwala, Dr. Awanish Dwivedi, Aslam Azad, Ajay Thapa, and Dhan Ratan Yadav, staged 37 plays in a series that took a time of 33.5 hours to complete under the direction of Moti Lal. Their only musician an...
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