Brothel #9

By Anusree Roy
Introduction by Iris Turcott
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, South Asian Canadian Playwrights, Award Winners, Women Writers
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

A deal has been struck between two men in India—twenty-one hundred rupees in exchange for a young village woman named Rekha. Sent to Calcutta without knowing why, Rekha finds herself in the confines ...

Pyaasa & Letters to My Grandma

By Anusree Roy
Introduction by Thomas Morgan Jones
Subjects: Family Life, South Asian Canadian Playwrights, Solo Shows, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers, (Im)migration
Casting: 1 f

Set in Calcutta, Pyaasa tells the story of Chaya, an eleven-year-old untouchable who dreams of nothing more than learning her times tables. When Chaya's mother begs a woman from a higher caste to give ...

Bhopal

By Rahul Varma
Foreword by Guillermo Verdecchia
Subjects: Quebec Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss, History, Political Theatre, South Asian Canadian Playwrights, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Environmental Issues
Casting: 8 actors
Duration: 90 hours

Bhopal, 1984. With the presence of the Carbide International pesticide factory, the city begins to claw its way out of endemic poverty. But what is to be made of the deformed babies born to women living ...

Counter Offence

By Rahul Varma
Subjects: South Asian Canadian Playwrights, Quebec Playwrights
Casting: 3 f, 5 m
Duration: 80 minutes

In this play, Rahul Varma has skilfully counterpointed the issues of racism and spousal abuse to show how the intersection of the two can be used to confound and mislead the public, while the Establishment ...