Plays by Nation - Indian Plays

Rashma N Kalsie

2 Male 1 Female

I have completely lost my talamAll I hear is the ring of mobile phones, the noise of escalators, platform announcements and the trains squealing on the tracks Where's the koyal, where's the ring of temple be...

$19.95

Aditi Brennan Kapil

3 Male 3 Female

This trilogy of plays is loosely based on the Hindu trinity of Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Sustainer and Shiva the Destroyer The deities are displaced into contemporary immigrants in the West, creating a...

$12.95

Sidney Homan & Brian Rhinehart

This book enables actors to create memorable and hilarious performances Sub-titled The Art and Craft of Performing in Comedies it explores why we laugh And what we laugh at And how performers can best e...

$24.95

Rose Biggin

This book is the first full-length study to focus on Punchdrunk, the internationally-renowned theatre company known for its pioneering approach to immersive theatre Drawing on the author's role as embedded...

$99.95

Robin Belfield

A practical guide to creating and producing verbatim theatre by an experienced theatre-maker and practitioner Verbatim theatre is fashioned from words actually spoken by real people in real situations, and ...

$19.95

Parv Bancil & Others

A play collection with an introduction by Afia Nkrumah and bibliography by Susan Croft featuring five works by prominent Black and Asian playwrights The five plays are ... HARVEST ~ MANJULA PADMANABHAN O...

$19.95

Tanika Gupta

7 Male 2 Female

Based on the true story of her great uncle and freedom fighter Dinesh Gupta, Lions and Tigers is Tanika Gupta's most personal play yet It charts Dinesh Gupta's emotional and political awakening as this extr...

$14.95

Sudha Bhuchar

3 Male 2 Female

An emotionally charged story of love and loss set during India's partition When his fingers slip away from his father's hand, one boy's destiny changes forever In the chaos of border crossing between India...

$14.95

Peter Brook & Marie-Helene Estienne

"Destruction never approaches weapon in hand. It comes slyly, on tiptoe, making you see bad in good and good in bad" The internationally renowned team of Peter Brook, Marie-Helene Estienne and Jean-Claude C...

$12.99

Ashis Sengupta

Islam in Performance brings together six contemporary plays from Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan that highlight the political performance of Islam in South Asia, especially since the 1947 partition of the su...

$31.95

Sulayman Al Bassam from William Shakespeare

Sulayman Al Bassam is one of the world's leading contemporary dramatists whose adaptations of Shakespeare have been performed around the world and have won many awards This volume brings together for the fi...

$29.95

Christine Bacon

3 Male 3 Female

"The world does not care. The world doesn't even know. There are European tourists sipping cocktails right now on the beaches in the south, who have no idea what's happening in the north" Sri Lanka, 2009 ...

$14.95

Laura Wade from Sarah Waters

It's 1887 and Nancy Astley sits in the audience at her local music hall She doesn't know it yet, but the next act on the bill will change her life Tonight is the night she'll fall in love ... with the t...

$14.95

Tanya Ronder from Shahid Nadeem

An intense domestic drama of global consequence for India then and for our world now 1659 - Mughal, India The imperial court is a place of opulence and excess - music, drugs, eunuchs and harems Two broth...

$12.99

David Hare from Katherine Boo

"It's not just that rich people don't know what they've got. They don't even know what they throw away" India is beginning to prosper But beyond the luxury hotels surrounding Mumbai airport is an obstacle,...

$12.99

Joann Rose Leonard

Six more globe-trotting one-acts from Africa, Finland, India, Russia and the USA for ages 8-18 The timeless and universal lessons that these dramatised folktales bring to to the journey include discovering...

$9.99

Siddharth Kumar

3 Male 1 Female

A bright, young man, holding his resume close, waits nervously at the reception of one of the country's largest corporations Moments later he is called in for his job interviewBut nothing he learnt in col...

$7.99

Peter Oswald

The ancient Hindu epic poem The Ramayana tells of the journey of Rama, an incarnation of God, to set free his wife Sita from the demon Ravana This divine story, here set forth in dramatic form, encapsulat...

$14.95

Michael Walling & Roe Lane - Editors

Painted on a vast pan-global canvas of locations, characters and experience The Orientations Trilogy is a trio of separate but related plays exploring sexuality and performance in contemporary and mythic Asi...

$24.95

Manoj Mitra trans Ranjan and Sangeeta Ghoshal

Banchharam's Orchard is a farcical comedy by Bengali playwright Manoj Mitra and tells us the hilarious tale of old Banchharam who, by his refusal to die, out-manoeuvres all those who are waiting greedily t...

$19.95