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Rani Moorthy

RANI MOORTHY  

 Nationality:    British
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below is a list of Rani Moorthy's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Curry Tales         Handful of Henna         If Only Sharukh Khan         Pooja         Shades Of Brown         Too Close To Home

Curry Tales

Synopsis:
Writer and performer Rani Moorthy just happens to be a fantastic cook, and she doesn't like to keep her talent to herself - in this show she employs her culinary skills live on stage, and from vengeful Trinidadian duck curry to life-saving Malaysian Laksa, shares with the audience what she cooks. Behind every curry lies a story, and in every cook there lies a character. Introduced by the tastefully flamboyant proprietor of the Hindustani Coffee House Mrs Dimple Melwani (part Ab Fab Edina and part Hello! celebrity), five intriguing cooks share intimate stories, each focusing on their own special sauce. Curry Tales combines razor-sharp observation with acute characterisation in a heady mix of flavours to please the most discerning palate.

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1st Produced:
Traverse 4 Raj Restaurant, Edinburgh, UK    2004

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Handful of Henna

Synopsis:
Being dragged by her mother back to the family village thousands of miles away is no fun for 13-year-old Nasreen. In the monsoon rain, not being able to text friends, she little expects what will be uncovered on her first visit. But with the mystical power of henna, a secret garden of buried dreams, and more than a little help from the wagging tongues of Aunties, Grandparents and neighbours, she is about to discover some unexpected truths about her mother. Based on real stories from Muslim women, this is an evocative and enchanting story of homecoming, adventure, fear and joy for a girl and her mother. Skipping back and forth across time and between lives lived across two cultures; four actresses create a bustling, colourful world bursting with music, dance and family celebration.

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Organisations:
http://www.warwickartscentre.co.uk/

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Genre:
75 min Play/Drama

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If Only Sharukh Khan

Synopsis:
The international superstar Shahrukh Khan means different things to three Asian women, Rose, Pindy and Kasi who have shared a house for 25 years. In the interim years there might have been friendships, adventures, lost loves and limited work lives but now in their older years there is a strong sense that their best lives were left behind in their homeland, Kenya, along with their secrets. The fan club is their only joy and escape. Until Opiyo, a young Kenyan man, appears at their doorstep, looking for his biological mother. Can the women somehow make peace with the past. . .if only Shahrukh Khan?

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1st Produced:
Theatre in the Mill, Off Shearbridge Road, Bradford BD7 1NX    23 Oct 2013

Organisations:
Rasa Productions

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Pooja

Synopsis:
A mistimed birth, a miscalculated horoscope. Since everything in an Indian woman's life depends on the stars, a Drama of the absurd begins.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Shades Of Brown

Synopsis:
Rasa returns with a thought-provoking one-woman show that asks: can one person's healthy glow be another's social stigma? Around the globe money and time is poured into tanning or bleaching. From a South African albino to a skin-bleaching Indian bride, Rani Moorthy, with her celebrated mix of of warm and powerful story telling, tranforms into funny and powerful characters who share an ironic kinship through the one thing they cannot hide or hide from - their skin.

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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Rasa

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Too Close To Home

Synopsis:
Too Close To Home' begins at a gentle Chekhovian pace, even if the issues it deals with are ultimately explosive. the setting's a Muslim home, Ramadan Radio is playing, and Kalida is worrying because her husband's refusing to take much-needed pills that he claims will violate his fast. At first their exchanges don't feel like the kind of banter you'd pay to hear: the jokes aren't particularly funny, and their preoccupations unengaging. But then the charm of Rani Moorthy's portrait of a family becomes clear: by refusing to heighten their dialogue, she makes them seem Why did the 7/7 bombers, young Britons ofAsian descent who enjoyed their football and their cricket and mostly seemed ordinary enough to their families, decide to destroy themselves and 50 others in the name of Islam? That's a question that still troubles everybody, not least Rani Moorthy.
Rachel Halliburton, Time Out London

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Organisations:
Rasa

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Music:
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To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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