Completed Plays

February 1, 2016 | Cubberley

August: Osage County

Playwright: Tracy Letts
Director: Mukund Marathe
Producer: Reshu Goyal
This darkly comedic play by Tracy Letts has swept the awards list - it received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony Award for Best Play, New York Drama Critics' Circle Award and August: Osage County is an unflinching – and uproarious – look at the dark warrens inside any home.
June 1, 2016 | Cubberley

Noises Off

Playwright: Michael Frayn
Director: Harish Agastya
Producer: Sumit Jain
Often called the funniest farce ever written, Michael’s Frayn’s Noises Off is a play-within-a-play, presenting a manic menagerie as a cast of actors rehearsing a sex romp hours before opening night. Lines are forgotten, love triangles unravel, gloves and clothes come off, and there are flying fish everywhere. Can the cast pull their act together on stage amidst all this pandemonium? The New York Times once called the play “the most dexterously realized comedy ever about putting on a comedy”. The Wall Street Journal said "If laughter is the best medicine, this flawless show is capable of curing double pneumonia." Noises Off has won the Lawrence Olivier Award for Best Play and the London Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy.
September 1, 2016 | Cubberley

Mr. India

A Naatak Original

Playwright: Sujit Saraf
Director: Sujit Saraf
Producer: Soumya Agastya
A half-blind, bumbling tea-seller in Delhi rises to become Prime Minister of India in this hilarious and hard-hitting satire on Indian democracy. Based on the 2007 novel The Peacock Throne, acclaimed by Time and The Guardian, the play is a grand farce, starting with the 1984 anti-Sikh riots that followed the assassination of Indira Gandhi, and ending with the election that threw up a hung parliament in 1989. Tucked amidst these momentous events is the tale of a humble and foolish tea-seller, whose rise to power is the bittersweet story of India itself. The play features spectacular sets, costumes and lights, along with live music by Nachiketa Yakkundi and his team, and dance by Niharika Mohanty, Deepa Mahadevan, Madhuri Kishore and their team. The whole play rhymes. Mr India is Naatak's 54th production and is the winner of a Knight Foundation award. It will be the largest production ever staged by Naatak. There will be as many as 50 people on stage, and we will perform as many as 13 shows.
Cubberley

Mela '16

Playwright: various
Director: various
Producer: Bodhi Das

1. অমর্ত্য (Bengali) - IMMORTAL Based on ময়ূরকণ্ঠী জেলী ("Mayurkanthi Jelly"), a short story by Satyajit Ray Adapted, directed and produced by Bodhi Das Cast: Anirban Chakraborty, Soumya Chakravorty, Sudipta Chatterjee, Anindita Mukherjee, Sayantanee Dutt When a scientist dies unexpectedly, his friend embarks on the project of publishing his work and finds himself entangled in a web of love, friendship, and ethical dilemmas.

2. ஆடு பலி ஆட்டம் (Tamil) - THE GOAT SLAUGHTER GAME Based on "Lamb to the Slaughter", a short story by Roald Dahl Adapted and directed by Mahesh Umasankar | Produced by Gopi Rangan Cast: Savitha Samu, Anush Moorthy, Dilip Ratnam, S Suresh, Venu Subramaniam Shattered by the discovery that her husband is leaving her, a devoted housewife retaliates, gathering the pieces rather cleverly.

3. गारे की दीवार (Hindi) - THE MUD WALL Written by Narendra Kohli Directed by Monica Chitkara | Produced by Vineeta Singh Cast: Deepal Pandya, Ashok Vijay, Manasi Deshmukh, Ankur Jain, Chinmay Vaidya Having moved to a new house, a family is visited by a thief whose arrival throws their lives into confusion.

4. Logging Out (Marathi) Written by Dharmakirti Sumant Directed by Aditya Kulkarni | Produced by Chakrapani Chitnis Cast: Mandar Khoje, Gauri Jog, Kiran Pandhare A girl prefers to live in the virtual world when talking to her boyfriend, but becomes acutely aware of her loneliness when forced to share her physical world with neighbors.

5. જુઓ શી કલા થી મે તમને છુપાવ્યા (Gujarati) - LOOK HOW ARTFULLY I PROTECTED YOU Based on "How He Lied to Her Husband" by George Bernard Shaw Adapted by Vikas Dhurka and Paresh Vyas | Directed by Vikas Dhurka | Produced by Alka Sippy Cast: Ekta Brahmakshatri, Snehal Pachigar, Sanju Pancholi A married woman and her lover get into a pickle with her husband and then get out of it.

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