pune with theatres shut because of lockdown stage actor and director atul pethe has taken to the digital medium to direct and stage a play based on the deadly virus that has upended lives around the worldmarking the world theatre day on friday pethe released a threeminute threepart digital play on youtube titled theatre in the time of corona he said that even though the play has been filmed digitally he had tried to keep the essence of theatre intactthe overwhelming theme of the play is agony across three short acts peppered with an overwhelming sense of desire and clamour for things as basic as the sun outside the home but it doesnt end without providing a semblance of hope of how human beings may reassess the world after the crisis with a possible end to the greed of humans and a return to the basics the last act features pethe with his profile lit up dramatically wiping off layers of dust and msud from his facethe mud depicts the layers of greed that human beings in general have put on themselves we have long abandoned our need and only increased our greed after this crisis human beings will hopefully reassess their basic needs pethe saidhe added everyone is disturbed theatres are shut everyone is confined to their homes and this will have a huge social economic and political impact there is fear and anxiety all around even i am wondering as to what is happening to me with all the fragmentation and polarisation and all the social distancing around me there was already distancing and discrimination in society based on caste and religion and this crisis has reduced us to poor and lonely human beings