I have always appreciated Girish Karnad’s plays, and have watched some of them in many languages…and so it’s a pleasure for me to put up this announcement from IFA about his new play….

Puravankara Presents

Wedding Album

Written by Girish Karnad

Directed by Lillette Dubey

Organised by

and in support of

India Foundation for the Arts

Bangalore – July 10th & 11th, 2008

Time: 7.30 pm, Duration: 90 minutes, Language: English

Venue: Chowdiah Memorial Hall

Girish Karnad’s latest play, WEDDING ALBUM, is a wonderful, comic drama that is deeply revelatory about the India that we live in today. The play is produced and directed by Lillette Dubey and has a top notch cast from the Mumbai stage including
Utkarsh Mazumdar, Neena Kulkarni, Ira Dubey, Suchitra Pillai, Rajev Paul, Amar Talwar, Seema Azmi, Deepika Deshpande, Raaghav Chanana & Armaan Sunny. It is supported by the best possible technical crew.

Synopsis

Traditionally a girl married a boy from the neighbouring village. In the globalised village, this ‘neighbourhood’ can be any corner of the earth. In the past, the bridal couple often saw each other for the first time on the wedding podium. Today a million emails, SMSes, phone calls, tapes and scanned images introduce them to each other. Yet one element of the plot remains unchanged: the couple agrees to enter an unknown, uncharted territory—each other.

Wedding Album deals with an urban middle-class family: a daughter who lives abroad with her professional husband, a son who is a software designer, a younger daughter willing to marry a suitable boy from the US she has never met, a doting mother and a loyal cook. This is an educated, liberal and modern family. Each snapshot shows its members frozen in an attitude of respectability, yet each figure has a double image with a penumbra of a hidden life. Wedding Album is a hilarious and moving spectacle.

Donor passes for Rs 500/- and Rs 300/- are available at the following Cafe Coffee Day outlets from Friday the 27th of June 2008.

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You can buy tickets online @ www.indiaplaza.com

For limited special donor passes for Rs 2000/- and Rs 1000/- please call Joyce @ IFA 23414681/82/83 or 9741010812 or mail to joyce@indiaifa.org

All Friends of IFA get a 10% discount on the tickets. Please contact menaka@indiaifa.org

This event is brought to you in association with Cafe Coffee Day, The Grand Ashok, Canara Bank, Kingfisher Airlines, Deutsche Asset Management.

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