‘Wedding Album’, Girish Karnad’s contemporary new comic drama, explores the traditional Indian Wedding in a globalised, technologically advanced India. On the surface it’s a familiar 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. Each snapshot shows its members frozen in a projection of respectability, but each figure has a double image, with the shadow of a hidden life. It's a hilarious spectacle. And, hopefully, both revealing and moving.
The Primetime Theatre Co. (Mumbai)
Directed by: Lillete Dubey
Playwright: Girish Karnad
Language: English
Date: August 21
Duration: 120 Minutes
About the group:
The Company was set up in 1991 with the ultimate objective of providing a platform for original Indian writing in English. Most of its productions have been in keeping with this philosophy. Some of the more notable productions of the group include ‘Dance Like A Man’ (1995), ’Autobiography’ (1996), ’Jaya- The Victory!’ (an operatic montage of the Mahabharata-1998), ’On a Muggy Night in Mumbai’ (1999), ‘Siren City’(2000), ’30 Days in September’ (2001),’ Womanly Voices’ (2003) ‘Breathe in Breathe out’ (2004) ‘Sammy’ (2005) ‘Kanyadaan’ (2007) and ‘Wedding Album’(2008). Three of these have won the Sahitya Kala Parishad Award for the Best Play of the year, and SAMMY won 4 National awards at META in 2006. The company has been invited to numerous prestigious National and International Festivals, and has toured extensively in India and abroad.
Cast & Crew
Lillete Dubey
Ira Dubey
Utkarsh Mazumdar
Suchitra Pillai
Satchit Puranik
Amar Talwar
Deepika Amin
Seema Azmi
Vivek Gomber
Nandita Dubey
Bhola Sharma
Shaikh Altaf
