Dara, National Theatre: a story of warring Mughal princes is more than just family drama
It may be the story of two brothers at the head of the Mughal Empire in 1659, whose sibling rivalry is stoked by a favouritist father into fratricide, but Dara is more than a family drama. Tanya Ronder's re-writing of Shahid Nadeem's play - first seen in Pakistan - focuses on the warring princes' differing views of Islam. In pitting the fundamentalism and brutality of the power-grabbing Aurangzeb (Sargon Yelda) again…