Play Reading 2 : The Wedding Album

We are very excited to host the second reading of our series. For those interested in joining:

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Saturday, December 11th 2010

An RSVP is required.
RSVP to comeplayalong@gmail.com
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The Wedding album is a comic drama that probes into Vidula's wedding festivities while providing a glimpse of small town contemporary India. This urban middle-class family has: a daughter who lives abroad with her husband, a software designer son and the younger daughter Vidula willing to marry a suitable boy from the US she has never met. Behind the facade of a conventional family, each character appears to have a hidden life.  

About the author:

Girish Karnad is no stranger to most of us who have grown up in India.  For the past 4 decades we have enjoyed his works as an actor, writer, and a director.Nevertheless here is a brief introduction to him as a playwright. He is most well known for writing plays based on the historical and mythological themes. However, off late he has also been writing modern day plays addressing the contemporary issues. His plays were originally written in Kannada and have been translated to various Indian languages and English.He is the latest of seven recipients of Jnanpith Award which is the highest literary honor conferred in India.

-Nikki & Pramida