Plays:
- Pune Highway
Date Seen: 14 May 2011
Venue: Epicentre, Apparel House, Sector 44, Gurgaon, Delhi (NCR), India
Written and Directed by: Rahul da Cunha
Instance Cast: Bugs Bhargava Krishna, Ashwin Mushran, Rajit Kapur, Yamini Namjoshi, Shankar Sachdev
It is 5 a.m. Three friends are holed up in a seedy hotel room, off the Bombay-Pune highway. They have just witnessed the stabbing of a fourth friend, in a robbery attempt by thugs. They need desperately to get back to Bombay, but are constantly thwarted by obstacles.A comic thriller that explores the survival of friendship in extreme circumstances. The play is filled with tension, nostalgia and humour.The play premiered at the Writers’ Bloc festival in 2004 and has since performed over a 100 shows all over the country and abroad. It played at the prestigious Biennale Bonn festival in Germany, as well a toured Amsterdam, Antwerp and Malaysia.
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- Copenhagen
Date Seen: 16 October 2011
Venue: NCPA Experimental Theatre, Mumbai, India
Written by: Michael Frayn
Directed by: Avaan Patel
Instance Cast: Tom Alter, Veera Abadan and Vivek Tandon
Why did Werner Heisenberg mysteriously visit Neils Bohr and his wife Margrethe in Copenhagen in 1941? What are the moral implications of nuclear programming? This exciting, evocatively crafted and topical play explores the historic meeting between the two great nuclear physicists, who are on opposing sides in World War II.
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- Class of '84
Date Seen: 13 November 2011
Venue: Sophia Auditorium, Mumbai, India
Directed by: Rahul Da Cunha
Instance Cast: Shernaz Patel, Zafar Karachiwala, Sohrab Ardeshir, Devika Shahani, Rituuraj, Rajit Kapur, Dipika Roy, Arghya Lahiri
A part--witty, part--gritty take on friendship. The beach home of a couple hosting five friends, backgrounds the college caper .But it digs deep, to earnestly scratch up still simmering issues between the seven protagonists.
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- Ok, Tata, Bye Bye
Date Seen: 15 January 2012
Venue: Prithvi Theatre, Juhu, Mumbai, India
Directed by: Rabijita Gogoi
Instance Cast: Ahlam Khan Karachiwala, Prerna Chawla, Gagan Riar, Nishi Doshi, Jim Sarbh, Shabnam Wadehra, Sarika, Aanchal, Mayur More, Gopal Datt
Pooja and Mitch come to India to make a documentary on caste-based prostitution, but it’s not as easy as they hoped. Seema, the sex worker, is uneducated, but intelligent enough to make them run around in circles. Rupa’s shy, but keen to explore the world outside. There is a trucker who thinks he is smart but always gets duped by the girls. A village full of sex workers where nothing and nobody comes for free …a price has to be paid eventually.
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- Baghdad Wedding
Date Seen: 22 January 2012
Venue: Prithvi Theatre, Juhu, Mumbai, India
Directed by: Akarsh Khurana
Written by: Hassan Abdulrazzak
Instance Cast: Nimrat Kaur, Karan Pandit, Faisal Rashid , Adhir Bhat, Zachary Coffin, Hussain Dalal
In Iraq, a wedding is not a wedding unless shots get fired. It`s like in England where a wedding is not a wedding unless someone pukes or tries to grope one of the bridesmaids. That's just the way it goes. Winner of the 17th Meyer Whitworth award and the 2008 George Devine award, Hassan Abdulrazzak, in his first play, not only covers an enormous amount of territory, he also reminds us of the infinite human contradictions within any nation. From cosmopolitan London to the chaos of war-ravaged Baghdad, this is the tale of three friends, who grapple with their cultural, political and sexual identities, torn between two worlds. And one wedding that goes horribly wrong.
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- Vagina Monologues (English)
Date Seen: 11 March 2012
Venue: The Comedy Store, Palladium Mall in High Street Phoenix, Mumbai, India
Directed by: Mahabanoo Mody - Kotwal & Kaizaad Kotwal
Written by: Eve Ensler
Instance Cast: Avantika Akerkar, Dolly Thakore, Sonali Sachdeva
This global phenomenon has become a brand name in India since its debut in 2003. This powerful play - an unusual blend of outrageous comedy and heart-breaking drama - tells the stories of women like you have never heard before. People keep coming back to see this play because each time the play and the performances reveal something new. From the Maharashtrian woman who met a man who "loved to look at her" to a Parsi woman who hasn't been "down there since 1944", this play promises to enlighten and entertain you like no other play out there right now. The piece de resistance of the evening is a medley of the Big “O.” It has been truly said of Eve Ensler's masterpiece, that after watching it, no man or woman will ever be the same again..
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- August : Osage County (English)
Date Seen: 22 April 2012
Venue:
Sophia Auditorium, Mumbai, India
Directed by: Lillete Dubey
Written by: Tracy Letts
Instance Cast: Lillete Dubey, Sandhya Mridul, Suchitra Pillai, Ira Dubey , Meeta Vasisht, Kitu Gidwani, Auritra Ghosh, Denzil Smith, A.S. Talwar, Danny Sura, Maneesh Verma
August – Osage County is a Pulitzer & Tony Award winning play. The play explores the universal themes of family, mother- daughter relationships and sibling and spouse conflicts and does so through stunning writing, deliciously crafted characters and a wild, pulsating energy that makes the play soar…It`s fiercely funny, extremely powerful, sometimes violent and just explosive throughout…
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