SNEHAL DESAI
| Nationality: | Asian American |
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Plays by Snehal Desai
Finding Ways to Prove You're Not an Al-Qaeda Terrorist when you are brown |
| 1st Produced: | The Kaufman Theater at the Algonquin Theater Company | 2008 | ||||
| Company: | Fresh Fruit Festival | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
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| Synopsis: | When his conventional Indian parents try to arrange a marriage for him, Akash, a gay Indian, hits the road to self-discovery that takes him from his home, rural Nebraska, to the throbbing clubs of London, to the rooftops of India and a kite festival unlike anything you could ever have imagined. Along the way meet his wily grandmother, the butch lesbians of Mumbai and learn a lot about cultures, identity and living that we are. Hilarious and heartbreaking, this one-man show tells a universal tale of identity, self-understanding and worrying about what your mother will say. | |||||
Sita/Sati |
| 1st Produced: | Despina | 2009 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A cross between Jean Genet's The Blacks and Suzann Lori-Parks Death of the Last Black Man, Sita/Sati tells the story of newly widowed Sita Desi, an immigrant from India. Sita finds herself struggling between a want to assimilate and integrate herself into the American landscape and trying to hold onto as much of her Indian cultural heritage as possible in a new land. - http://www.aatrevue.com | |||||