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PADMA VISWANATHAN (1968 - ) |
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Nationality: Canadian Email: n/a Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: WCA Film and Television |
Padma Viswanathan's novel, The Toss of a Lemon, will be published by Random House Canada and Harcourt US in 2008. She was the winner of the 2006 Boston Review Short-Story Contest; other stories have been published in Prism International, AGNI Online, New Letters and Subtropics. She lives in Arkansas
Plays by Padma Viswanathan
By Air, By Water, By Wood | ||
| 1st Produced: | Toronto, ON | 2000 | ||||
Company: | Frog and Nightgown Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | South Asian Review, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #84309 | |||
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Genre: | Drama - short play (about 20 min) One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | By Air, By Water, By Wood is a comic retelling of a south Indian myth, in which the heads of two women are mistakenly transposed. The women, martyred through this misfortune, transform into goddesses. In By Air, By Water, By Wood, however, their apotheosis hinges on an Oedipal twist. By Air, By Water, By Wood was first produced as one in an evening of short plays. Toronto's Now Magazine said, in its review, "The best, Padma Viswanathan's playful, slyly satiric tale of duelling deities vying to determine who is the more innocent, is vibrant and engrossing." | |||||
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Disco Does Not Suck | ||
| 1st Produced: | CBC Radio | 1999 | ||||
Company: | CBC Radio | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #84310 | |||
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Genre: | Drama/Comedy Radio | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 1 boy 4 girls | |||||
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Synopsis: | Disco Does Not Suck is a short radio play, set in 1979, about Sharmila, a grade 7 girl who loves disco. Delores, another girl, loves to pick on Sharmila. When the popular girl's friends turn on her, though, they do this by muscling in on Sharmila's birthday party. Sharmila is thrilled-until the party hurtles out of control. | |||||
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House of Sacred Cows | ||
| 1st Produced: | Edmonton, AB | 1998 | ||||
Company: | Northern Light Theatre Co., Edmonton, AB Canada | |||||
| 1st Published: | NeWest Press, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #35602 | |||
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Genre: | Drama/ Comedy - full-length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 1 child | |||||
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Synopsis: | House of Sacred Cows is a play about the intersection of two tenuous institutions: the Indian extended family and the commune. In the opening scene, Anand, an Indian graduate student, seeks a place in a housing co-op, only to have his parents' ghosts show up in his room to remind him of all the responsibilities he is ignoring. Anand continues to avoid both parents and responsibilities while falling into a relationship with January, the pillar of the co-op, who turns out to have ghosts of her own. Meanwhile, a love triangle between one of their roommates and two twin brothers threatens to explode. "(an) intricate, fascinating comedy" said the Edmonton Journal. "The texture of co-op life is hilariously captured." VUE Magazine said, "Rich language, stories and ideas from the East, and the West's casual indifference to family and politics collide." Quill & Quire called it a "finely observed comedy of manners." | |||||
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