Play: Wedding Album March 14, 2009

Girish Karnad`s contemporary new play, is a wonderfully insightful and comic tale that is modern, relevant and revelatory about India as in the present. The play explores the traditional Indian wedding in a globalized, 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 U.S. she has never met, and then, of course, there is the doting mother and the loyal cook. The family is educated, liberal, and modern. Each snapshot in the album shows an image of respectability behind which lie double images that unfold in the play.

Written by Girish Karnad.
Directed by Lillete Dubey.
Cast: Utkarsh Mazumdar, Neena Kulkarni, Ira Dubey, Suchitra Pillai, Rajev Paul, Amar Talwar, Deepika Amin, Seema Azmi, Raaghav Chanana and Armaan Sunny.

A Primetime Theatre Company Production.