2020 Productions
THE BIG FAT CITY
Written and Directed by: Mahesh Dattani
Debjani Banerjee as Niharika
Anil Joseph as Murli
Praful Kohale as Shailesh
Suma Muralidhar as Lolly
Gauri Kansara as Anu
Dr. Narendra Kishnani as Kailash
Sanjay Kripalani as Puneet
Shailendra Khurrana as Harjeet
Welcome to maximum city, sewer city, film city, The Big Fat City. One night unfolds a thousand stories. One tiny flat holds a hundred secrets.
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Discover some of them in this darkly comic play quite different from all the other plays written by Dattani. An ode to the city that everybody loves to hate, but end up hating their love for it.
Cast
THE SEDUCTION
Playwright: Anton Chekhov
Directed By: Barkha Kishnani
The Seduction is a humorous short play about an over-confident seducer of married women who tries to charm his best friend’s younger wife, using his friend as an unwitting accomplice in the ploy!
Cast
Murtuza Sabir as Peter Symyonych
Swagata Sengupta as The Wife
Arin Shome as The Husband
GOD OF CARNAGE
Playwright: Yasmin Reza
Directed By: Dr. Farley Richmond
Cast
Anahita Mantri as Annette Raleigh
Madhuwanti Bhat as Veronica Novak
Soumendu Bhattacharya as Michael Novak
Rajiv Paul as Alan Raleigh​
Yasmina Reza has given us her take on what happens when two couples confront each other over a physical altercation between their 11 year old sons. Each parent has their own interpretation of what happened between the boys.
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Hell breaks loose and a civil discussion turns into an all out brawl leading us to consider what it means to be human in today’s world.
THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA
Playwright: Lorca Federico Garcia lorca
Directed by: Dr. Farley Richmond
Lorca’s play brings out the tension, passion and the conflicts between the domineering matriarch Bernarda Alba and her five daughters as she imposes an eight-year mourning period on her household. The play featured a mix of seasoned actors and debutantes alike.
Cast
Debjani Banerjee as Bernarda Alba
Madhuwanti Bhat as Magdalena
Mona Kripalani as Angustia
Anahita Mantri as Amelia
Pallavi Nambiar as Martirio
Meera Narasimhan as Maria Josefa
Swagata Sengupta as Adela
Seema Shahane as La Poncia
Maha Srinivasan as Prudencia
Indu Shrivastava as Maid
Emerging Artists' Program 2020
DEFYING GRAVITY
Playwright: Sofia Sepulveda Pizarro
Directed BY: Barkha Kishnani
The story is about a young school girl who finds her love for a game dominated by boys but in the process discovers her own inner strength through the sport of wrestling.
Cast
Mona Kripalani as Carla
Gaurav Shah as Coach
Kshirin Deshmukh as Edith
Dhruv Agrawal as Alex
William Anil as Carlos
Yaduveer Singh as Jordan
Ritvick Chawla as Teammate 1 & 2
Kinnary Patel as Stage Directions
