Drama on 3 - My Brother God and the Ban Yan Tree

By Dusty Hughes. A play set in India in the 1910s against the backdrop of the struggle for independence from British rule. After British social reformer and Indian nationalism supporter Annie Besant joins the Indian National Congress to fight for independence from British rule, her appointment of a local schoolboy as a near-Messiah figure in the Hindu-style cult she presides over brings criticism. How does the naive youth cope with such a change in his life expectations? Annie Besant ...... Suzanne Bertish Krishna ...... James Gandhi Nityam ...... Akbar Kurtha Leadbeater ...... Tim Pigott-Smith Arundale ...... Stephen Hogan Mrs Van Hook ...... Christine Kavanagh Jiddu ...... Nadim Sawalha Gokhale ...... Kaleem Janjua Harrington ...... Sam Dale Pentland ...... Philip Fox Rosalind ...... Emerald Fennell Francis ...... Matt Addis Hubert ...... Benjamin Askew McKenzie ...... Malcolm Tierney Directed by Peter Kavanagh.