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"An elderly couple decide one night to end it all to save their children further trouble...."
"The play is based on the suspicion that the amazing success and daring of Somali pirates hide a political mystery which cannot be easily explained away. In the late 19th century pirates similarly held..."
"Vijay, high-ranking Police officer, Special Branch, in an Indian Metropolis is told by Anjali, Secretary Social Welfare that Brendan, Special Envoy of the American President and his wife Enid are arri..."
"This radio play, itself a satire on present-day American foreign policies, attempts to highlight what might have been the real economic factors that led the Greeks into the long and protracted Trojan ..."
"A satire about how so-called civil society organisations are run, the hypocrisy and the staging when a foreign donor appears...."
"A contemporary play about Indian women of all ages, and coming from several sections of India’s hierarchal society - a few who are wealthy, and several who are poor. A grand old lady is caught up in..."
"A short situational drama about the modern generation of upward-climbing techies, their relationships and morals...."
"The great Sanskrit poet, Kalidasa, most probably staged Shakuntala early in the 6th century, perhaps in the city of Ujjayini, the centre of the Indian empire. Shakuntala, the daughter of Rama’s sage..."
"A play based on original historical research about an almost-forgotten battle in India in 1803, when Major-General Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) decisively defeated a great Maratha a..."
"A skit about a ‘terrorist.’ Perhaps anyone can be called one in difficult times – even Shakespeare?..."
"This play, itself a satire on present-day American foreign policies, attempts to highlight what might have been the real economic factors that led the Greeks into the long and protracted Trojan war. T..."
"This pantomime places Cinderella in the middle of the French Revolution, with real historical characters all round her – except, of course, for herself, Buttons, and the wicked step-mother – and i..."
"A SHORT PLAY about the tensions and the politics of power that rise almost daily in a household between mother and daughter, grandmother and daughter-in-law and the games everyone plays...."
"This is a political comedy about the difficult existential situation encountered today by Muslims in India, though India is home to around 150 million Muslims, and Islam has been practiced since the d..."
"A short satire about bureaucrats and their happy amoral way of working...."
"A Feydeau-like farce to be performed in slap-stick style about a beautiful women and her many international admirers...."
"A satire about the reality of ‘Sisterhood’ despite all public proclamations, the play of power and ambition among a group of women who say they are trying to serve the public interest...."
"There is a common belief held by large sections of Indian society that a curse or an evil deed results in ‘evil’ itself lingering and affecting several people, even across generations. The play is..."
"A short play about how the price of onions affects the state of the economy and relationships between people...."
"A short satirical political spoof about what it would take to end the Cuban Crisis to suit American wishes...."
"A Satire about scientists, their beliefs when in service and how they change after retirement, personal ego clashes, and all in the apparent quest for scientific truth...."
"A director of an amateur theatre group attempts to stage Shakespeare but is faced with varied objections from every member of his group to every suggested play...."
"A short play about an educated Naxalite trying to surrender in a small police station in the Nilgiris, and the successful attempts of the policemen to rehabilitate him...."
"A fanciful comedy about a ‘Public School’ for the grown-up children of nawabs and rajahs a century ago...."
"This play solves all the main mysteries that have surrounded the figure of Shakespeare: who he was; what he did during the seven ‘lost years’; whether Bacon did write Shakespeare; who the ‘dark ..."
"A satire about the ‘Tiger Project’ and the Forest Department...."
"Chess has always been connected with the practice of war, but in reality it is a mind-game, and its stratagems can parallel human contests in any field of engagement. Varadachary, a fictional centenar..."
"Chess has always been connected with the practice of war, but in reality it is a mind-game, and its stratagems can parallel human contests in any field of engagement. Varadachary, a fictional centenar..."
"Chess has always been connected with the practice of war, but in reality it is a mind-game, and its stratagems can parallel human contests in any field of engagement. Varadachary, a fictional centenar..."
"Chess has always been connected with the practice of war, but in reality it is a mind-game, and its stratagems can parallel human contests in any field of engagement. Varadachary, a fictional centenar..."