Bombay Talkies
September 2 - October 1 | Palo Alto
written and
a musical in Hindi, with supertitles in English
A clapper-boy makes his way through the Hindi film industry between 1935 and 1975, from Devdas to Sholay, befriending stars - Saigal, Ashok Kumar, Raj Kapoor, Nargis, Madhubala, Dilip Kumar, Dev Anand, Rajesh Khanna and Amitabh Bachchan, and playback singers - Lata, Rafi, Mukesh and Kishore - while assisting in shoots and song sequences, serving as chauffeur, gateman, teaboy and confidante, and secretly shaping the industry that later came to be called Bollywood. Punctuated by well-known songs and lesser-known tidbits, Bombay Talkies is a sashay through the film industry in its golden years, capturing its glitz, glamour and insouciance, its soul-stirring music, its utter lack of insight, and its complete detachment from the world that sustains it. The play will be performed with live music and dance.
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The Mousetrap
December 1 - December 17 | Campbell
(in English)
As news spreads of a murder in the city, a group of seven strangers find themselves stuck in a remote village guesthouse. When a police officer arrives, the guests discover that the killer is in their midst... Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap is the longest running play in the world, with its 29,226th performance taking place in August, 2023.
Starbright Theater, 1770 W Campbell Ave, Campbell, CA 95008
सूरज का सातवाँ घोड़ा
January 27, 2024 - February 10, 2024 | Palo Alto
adapted for the stage by Vipul Srivastava
(in Hindi, with supertitles in English)
Over slices of melon during lazy summer afternoons, Manik Mulla tells his listeners three inter-related love stories that end in heart-break, confusion or somewhere in between. Based on Bharati’s acclaimed novella, सूरज का सातवाँ घोड़ा (The Seventh Horse of the Sun) straddles these three stories and seems to draw conclusions, until it does not.
Cubberley Theater, 4120 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA 94306
run-time: 130 minutes, plus a 10-minute intermission
Children under 7 will not be admitted.
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translated by Ritwik Verma,
(in Hindi, with supertitles in English)
Gaslight is the gripping story of a man manipulating his wife to make her doubt her own senses – ‘gaslighting’ her, a term that was born with this play. This 1938 thriller debuted in London and was adapted into two films and multiple stage productions. Its Broadway incarnation, Angel Street, remains one of the longest running plays in Broadway history.
Starbright Theater, 1770 W Campbell Ave, Campbell, CA 95008
पहली पहली मारुति
June 14, 2024 - June 23, 2024 | Palo Alto
(the last play in Season 2023-24)
(in Hindi, with supertitles in English)
On December 14, 1983, Indian Airlines employee Harpal Singh received the keys to a white Maruti-800 from Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and became the first owner of India’s best known car. The newspapers did not know that this was in fact the second Maruti, because the first - a red Maruti-800 - had been secretly delivered to Lucky Dhamija, a shopkeeper in South Delhi. पहली पहली मारुति (The Very First Maruti) is the hilarious story of that secret first Maruti, which landed like a meteorite in a government colony, awed the children, office-goers, sweepers and pandits around it, and upturned the life of a grandmother with creeping dementia.
Cubberley Theater, 4120 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA 94306
(in Hindi, with supertitles in English)