Adapted by Nishant Sinha from David Campton's Us & Them

The play illustrates the conflicts and similarities of two groups of wanderers looking for a place to settle. They agree to share and mark the line between their territories, then build a small wall. The wall is built higher and then still higher. Suspicion and mistrust is incited a by a couple people in each group, which slowly but surely spreads to the whole group. The mistrust about what other group might be doing grows to the point where the groups explode in conflict leading to nothing but death and destruction. The play though ends with a positive note where the kids give a ray of hope.
David Campton's "Us and Them" reminds us of the fundamental condition for man’s survival - to live and share peacefully with each other in this world of ours; it reminds us to be wary of division among men, a division brought about by mistrust, miscommunication and misunderstanding. It is a reminder, timely, in our current global tension between nations, and the threat of war.

Performed November of 2002 at Meridian High School during Indian Cultural Festival organized by AID-Boise. More than 400 people attended the program.

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Director	Nishant Sinha
Music	Naga Chandrasekaran & Nishant Sinha

CAST
kid		Varsha Iyer
kid		Rishabh Singh
B2		Pary Balasubramanian
A3		Venkat Bringi
A1		Naga Chandraseka
B1		Geetanjali Ghosh
B4		Nalini Iyer
A2		Arun Lokanathan
Narrator		Sanjay Singh
B3		Veera Srivastava
A4		Mouli Subramanian