Gopi Warrier's plays enthral audiences in London

UK-based Indian poet-playwright Gopi Warrier's two plays - "Ego of the Yogis" and "Polyester Lordship" - have evoked rave reviews in London.

Dealing with corporate responsibility and the search for spirituality reflecting contemporary times, the plays are being staged at the Steiner Theatre since April 1, said a statement.

Directed by Alex Crampton, the cast includes leading British actors Sarah Hall, Tim Heath, Sanjive Hayre (who has acted as Jawaharlal Nehru), Lloyd Morris, Gillian Kirkpatrick, Tim Hilborne and Paul Piggott.

An alumnus of London Business School, Warrier moved to Britain from Kerala after completing his graduation. He conceptualised both the plays.

"Polyester Lordship" portrays the absence of corporate social responsibility to workers and consumers in the often-corrupt world of international business, while "Ego of the Yogis" is a more regretful yet romantic evocation of the search for true love and of the contamination of yoga and spirituality in the Western world and in India.

The highlight in the play "Ego of the Yogis" is it's for the first time that the great Sage Adi Shankara's famous Sanskrit Poem "Kanakadhara Stavam" - which he recites in the house of a poor woman who gives him alms - is sung on the theatre stage in London.

Another important showpiece in the "Ego of the Yogis" is how the latest Japanese research mathematically proves the illusory nature of the world as the Hindus always believed.