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Rahul Varma
Rahul Varma is a playwright,
essayist and community activist. Born in 1952 in India, he moved to
Canada in 1976. In 1981, he co-founded Teesri Duniya Theatre (Teesri Duniya means “third world”
in Hindi), which is a professional, multicultural company that produces
socially relevant theatre examining issues of cultural representation
and diversity in Canada. Rahul became the company’s artistic director
in 1986. To advance the company’s mandate, he launched the theatre
quarterly alt.theatre: cultural diversity and the stage in 1998.
He made his first forays into
English language with a series of one-act plays that included Job
Stealer, Isolated Incident and Equal Wages. With
Land Where The Trees Talk, in 1989, he turned his attention to the
creation of full-length plays. His full-length works include No Man’s
Land, the radio drama Trading Injuries, Counter Offence
and his most recent work, Bhopal. Counter Offence has
been translated into French as L’Affaire Farhadi and Italian
as Il Caso Farhadi. Bhopal has been translated into French
under the same title and has also been translated into Hindi and Urdu
by India’s pre-eminent director Habib Tanvir under the name Zahreeli
Hawa.
Rahul lives in Montreal with
his wife and his daughter.
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