Season 24
February 2020 | Cubberley
Rumors
Rumors
RUMORS is considered the funniest farce
Run-time: 2 hours, language: English
Children under 7 will not be admitted
Cast: Anjali Bhide, Chaitanya Godse, Chanpreet Singh, Ekta Brahmakshatri, Kamala Subramaniam, Natraj Kumar, Ritwik Verma, Roshni Datta, Bruce Blau, Deanna Shinsky
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Overtones
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Overtones
by Alice Gerstenberg,
A woman meets the wife of her ex-lover, but their inner selves have come along too.
language: English
cast: Savitha Samu, Devika Ashok, Anitha Dixit, Pratiksha Rao-Vaidya
duration: 30 minutes
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Sorry, Wrong Number
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Sorry, Wrong Number
by Lucille Fletcher,
A bedridden woman overhears something she should not have.
language: English
cast: Ranjita Chakravarty, Tannistha Mukherjee, Swagato Basumallick, Ashish Chakrabortty, Sharvari Dixit, Sudipta Chatterjee
duration: 30 minutes
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He Said And She Said
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He Said And She Said
by Alice Gerstenberg,
He said this and she said that, and who else said what?
language: English
cast: Harshavardhana, Khushboo Kalyani, Preeti Bhat, Sayantanee Dutt
duration: 30 minutes
July 3, 2021 | Zoom
Sangati
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सांगाती
by Ratnakar Matkari,
A blind writer asks his girl-friend to make a life of her own.
language: Hindi
cast: Mugdha Kulkarni, Chaitanya Godsay
duration: 25 minutes
August 8, 2021 | Zoom
Court
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Court
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language: English
A tribute to Perumal Murugan's One Part Woman , this play imagines a special court session convened to hear the testimony of a woman who says she was raped at a village temple festival.
cast: Preeti Gupta, Vikram Ramanarayanan, Divya Balu, Anindita Mukherjee
duration: 30 minutes
September 26, 2021 | Zoom
सह न ववतु
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Sahana Vavatu
based on: Out at Sea by Slawomir Mrozek, adapted by Ashok Vijay,
This is the hilarious story of three hungry men trapped on a raft in the middle of the sea, who must now decide what (or whom) to eat...
language: Hindi
cast: Anjali Kirloskar, Ashok Vijay, Namrata Dey, Somdev Sen, Sunny Moza
duration: 40 minutes
November 7 - 14, 2021 | Zoom
प्रस्ताव, पति पत्नी और वो
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प्रस्ताव and पति पत्नी और वो
two hilarious plays, adapted from 2 masterpieces
प्रस्ताव, adapted and The Proposal by Anton Chekhov
A young man's proposal to the girl-next-door does not go quite as planned.
language: Hindi
cast: Romie Decosta, Nitin Deo, Neha Goyal
duration: 30 minutes
पति पत्नी और वो, adapted by Vikas Dhurka and Paresh Vyas from How He Lied To Her Husband by George Bernard Shaw, and
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What happens when a husband discovers the love poems written to his wife by her lover?
language: Hindi
cast: Anjali Bhide, Anupam Dhyani, Harsh Parikh
duration: 30 minutes
December 2-4, 2005 | Zoom
Everyone Loves A Good Tsunami
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8 pm, Saturday, September 19 and 26
Everyone Loves A Good Tsunami
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December 2004: In Asia, a tsunami has devastated the lives of millions. In Silicon Valley, the India Association has split. In this hilarious satire, it is the victims of the tsunami who come to the rescue of the victims of the split.
language: English
cast: Mukund Marathe, Kartic Bhargav, Anjali Kirloskar, Natraj Kumar, Sravanthi Prattipati, Rekha Marathe, Anirudh Mohan, Manish Sabu
poster art by Anshu Johri, sound by Sudipta Chatterjee
duration: 80 minutes
February 19-26, 2022 | Zoom
Ultimate Breaking News
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Ultimate Breaking News
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Four TV journalists are kidnapped and forced to star in a deadly reality show.
language: English
cast: Rajiv Nema, Ranjini Srinivasan, Tannishtha Mukherjee, Shiv Jayaraman, Anju Prakash
production team: Anitha Dixit, Saurabh Jain
duration: 50 minutes
February 8-9, 1997 | Zoom
आठ घंटे
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आठ घंटे (8 Hours)
by Sujit Saraf,
Two clerks in Delhi's Connaught Place spend an 8-hour working day - and a lifetime - together, watching the world change around them. आठ घंटे has been staged all over the United States. In India, nearly 50 shows have been performed by artists from the National School of Drama, Delhi, and other
language: Hindi
cast: Mohammad Zishan, Abhishek Das
duration: 75 minutes
November 16-17, 2002 | Zoom
ख़ामोश! अदालत जारी है
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ख़ामोश! अदालत जारी है (Silence! The Court Is In Session)
by Vijay Tendulkar,
A rehearsal by a travelling
language: Hindi
cast: Anjali Kirloskar, Anush Moorthy, Ashish Chakrabortty, Dhananjay Motwani, Mukund Marathe, Parag Kilche, Savitha Samu, Surender Singh
duration: 90 minutes
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Prisoner's Dilemma
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Prisoner's Dilemma
by Anush Moorthy,
language: Hindi/English
A serial killer stalks Mumbai, and a quirky constable may have found the clues that will give him away.
cast: Anupam Dhyani, Chaitanya Godse, Chinmay Vaidya, Kavita Joshi, Preeti Bhat, Rohit Dube
duration: 75 minutes
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Mataji
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Mataji
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language: English
Known worldwide as the "hugging saint" who provides hugs over Zoom, Mataji has hugged millions, bringing them joy and electric vibrations. In this humorous farce, she finally meets someone for whom a Zoom-hug won't work.
production team: Poulomi Sarkar, Tuhina Goel
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cast: Bruce Blau, Kartic Bhargav, Dilip Ratnam, Amit Sharma, Laurie Michaels, Deanna Shinsky, Jay Ruparel, Ranjini Srinivasan, Shelly Smith, Karla Nema, Mahesh Makhijani, Monica Mehta Chitkara, Deepal Pandya
music: Anitha Dixit
duration: 75 minutes
September 2022 | Zoom
Flowers In The Desert
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Flowers In The Desert
by Donna Hoke,
language: English
Two years after his affair rocks their marriage, Preeti calls on Jai with a proposal and an agenda. The play takes us through eight dates in their lives as they attempt to re-ignite the spark in their failed romance.
cast: Devika Ashok, Anush Moorthy
camera: Poulomi Sarkar
sound: Saurabh Jain & Poulomi Sarkar
props: Saurabh Jain
sets: Anush Moorthy & Krishna Moorthy
costumes: Avnika Agarwal
poster: Soumi Sarkar
duration: 70 minutes
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The Government Inspector
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The Government Inspector
based on Gogol's Inspector General,
language: Hindi
In this hilarious adaptation of Gogol's classic, the inspector general is about to visit town for an inspection, and corrupt local officials are scrambling to make a good impression.
cast: Jai Jhala, Shruti Shah, Maunic Dharia, Roshni Datta, Harsh Parikh, Ruchir Sutaria, Nisarg Parikh, Ashish Chakrabortty, Tannistha Mukherjee, Anoushka Dave
runtime: 80 minutes
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Dinnertime Plays
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Dinnertime Plays
FOURTEEN by Alice Gerstenberg,
A socialite plans the perfect dinner party in this hilarious satire.
ROYAL TAJ by Suruchi Mohan,
A wedding anniversary dinner mixes menu and grievance.
language: English
cast: Anjali Kirloskar, Dilip Ratnam, Sravanthi Prattipati, Anjana Surin, Dhananjay Motwani
producers: Anitha Dixit and Poulomi Sarkar
image by Shreya Dixit, flute by Rishabh Sabu
runtime: 40 minutes
September 23, 2018 | Zoom
Mahabharat
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MAHABHARAT
the grand finale of our season
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The great epic, imagined as a unique Zoom play with live music and dance, minimalist design, and a stylish rendering of the violent scenes in the story.
music
dance
dance choreographers: Archana Kamath, Pragya Dasgupta, Nisha Natraj
costumes: Soumya Agastya
sound: Anitha Dixit and Vikas Dhurka
language: Hindi
runtime: 75 minutes
performers (in order of appearance):
Nachiketa Yakkundi, Rucha Londhe, Sravanthi Prattipati, Shwetha Subraya, Pragya Dasgupta, Archana Kamath, Nisha Natraj, Poulomi Sarkar, Ishani Pandya, Dilip Ratnam, Parin Maru, Vandana Ramakrishnan, Monica Mehta Chitkara, Amit Sharma, Dhananjay Motwani, Jay Ruparel, Jai Jhala, Tejaswini Narayanan, Lata Kalra, Kunjan Chheda, Isha Sarkar, Roshni Datta, Anitha Dixit
Nachiketa Yakkundi, Rucha Londhe, Sravanthi Prattipati, Shwetha Subraya, Pragya Dasgupta, Archana Kamath, Nisha Natraj, Poulomi Sarkar, Ishani Pandya, Dilip Ratnam, Parin Maru, Vandana Ramakrishnan, Monica Mehta Chitkara, Amit Sharma, Dhananjay Motwani, Jay Ruparel, Jai Jhala, Tejaswini Narayanan, Lata Kalra, Kunjan Chheda, Isha Sarkar, Roshni Datta, Anitha Dixit