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Girish Karnad

GIRISH KARNAD

  (1938 - )
Nationality:    Indian
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Girish Karnad's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Girish Karnad's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Bali  the Sacrifice         Boiled Beans on Toast         Flowers         Hayavadana         Tughlaq         Wedding Album

Bali  the Sacrifice

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Play/Drama

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Boiled Beans on Toast

Synopsis:
Boiled Beans on Toast traces the interwoven lives of half-a-dozen people who have opted to live in the city of Bangalore . They are very different from each other, belonging to widely divergent social strata, and from widely separated geographical corners. Starting from under a single roof, these lives branch out in diverse directions, get entangled in the swirl of life outside where they lose track of themselves, separate or unexpectedly collide and careen off each other. The city is Bangalore, but anyone familiar with life in a modern Indian megalopolis will instantly respond to this portrayal of urban aspirations, conflict, blind groping and violence. A serene old lady unexpectedly discovers a passion for horse racing and is not averse to cheating her own familiy; a small-town youth, devoted to his family, is mesmerized by prospects of sudden prosperity; a trustworthy servant of many years is discovered floating homeless in the nightmarish streets; a not-very-bright young maid learns how to fight for survival within the confines of a kitchen: What we have is modern city life in its many shadow-shapes, funny, tender, moving, relentless in its pursuit of success, buffeted by ceaseless emotional flux.

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1st Produced:
National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai     20 Apr 2014

Organisations:
Primetime Theatre Company, Mubai

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Genre:
Play/Drama 105 min

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Flowers

Synopsis:
a Dramatic monologue about a pious priest who violates both his 'dharma' (duty) and his 'bhakti' (devotion) because of his love for a courtesan
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Bangalore and Bombay     2006

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Hayavadana

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1st Produced:
Warehouse Theatre Croydon, London     1988

Organisations:
Tara Arts

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Tughlaq

Tughlaq
A medieval monarch

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Three Modern Indian Plays" published by Oxford University Press India 1990   978-0195623727

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Wedding Album

Synopsis:
looks at life through the other end of the muti-national telescope to show us the impact of globalised technology on Indian culture: on its customs, business and family life - a computer literate world in which even wedding traditions are being turned upside down.
- John Thaxter, British theatre Guide

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1st Produced:
Watermans, Brentford     2009

Organisations:
Primetime Theatre Company

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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