Date: 31st January 2009, By: Utkarsh Mazumdar, Smita Jayakar, lra Dubey, Pravishi Das, Satchit Puranik, Amar, Armaan Sunny
LSS has great pleasure in presenting ‘Wedding Album’ Girish Karnad’s latest play on the shenanigans around a wedding which is a fine comedy of our times.
The name of Girish Karnad is popular all over India and has created somewhat of a trend among theatre groups in various languages, the most being English. A group is not considered serious unless it has done at least one Karnad’s play.
This Girish Karnad’s contemporary play, is a wonderfully insightful and comic tale that is modern, relevant and revealing about the India that we live in today. It explores the traditional Indian Wedding in a globalized , technologically advanced India.
On the surface it’s a familiar a picture – a joyful event when members of the clan come together to celebrate and reaffirm loyalties, but behind the picture perfect smiles, simmer long suppressed suspicions, jealousies, frustrations and aggression.
The play deals with a normal urban middle – class family: a daughter who lives abroad with her professional husband, a brother who is a software designer, a younger daughter happy enough to marry a suitable boy from the US she has never met, and then, of course, there is the doting mother and the loyal cook. A family, which is educated, liberal, and modern. But beneath the familiar surface of a joyful wedding simmer the undisclosed secrets of the characters and their lives.
It’s a hilarious spectacle. And hopefully, both revealing and moving.
Play is produced by The Primetime Theatre Co and directed by Ms. Lillete Dubey. Cast includes Utkarsh Mazumdar, Smita Jayakar, lra Dubey, Pravishi Das, Satchit Puranik, Amar & Armaan Sunny.
Set & Lights designed by Mr. Bhola Sharma who has been involved in Art Direction, Set Design and Lighting design since 1982.
Sound & Backstage by Mr. Inaayat Sami who is versatile personality and almost all major plays have his input.
Cast:
Utkarsh Mazumdar
Smita Jayakar
lra Dubey
Pravishi Das
Satchit Puranik
Amar
Armaan Sunny
