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Manjula Padmanabhan

MANJULA PADMANABHAN

  
Nationality:    USA
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Manjula Padmanabhan's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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

         Harvest         Hidden Fires         Mating Game, The

Harvest

Synopsis:
the story centers on Om, who signs up to be an organ donor for an American woman nammed Ginni because there are no other jobs available for him in Mumbai. Ginni pays him to lead a clean and healthy life so that she can harvest healthy organs whenever she needs them.

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1st Produced:
Delhi    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in Black and Asian Plays Anthology ed. Cheryl Robson, Aurora Metro, 2000   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  8 actors

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Hidden Fires

Synopsis:
A man confesses that he has 'stamped out' countless 'hidden fires' - human lives that are less than human to him, merely faceless threats to his own security - and then finds himself on the receiving end of the same ruthless treatment. Taken from a series of five, powerful, hard-hitting monologues in the the playwright tackles head-on issues of violence, intolerance of others, narrow concepts of community and nation, each with a twist that lifts it into the realm of real Drama.
- http://www.aatrevue.com

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1st Produced:
Salaam    2003

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Mating Game, The

Synopsis:
Six contestants, three women, three men, prepare to face the final round of a TV game-show designed to help themselves win a mate and a dowry - if they're lucky. If they're unlucky, they face forfeits including torture and death, live in front of an audience of millions. the subtext of the play is the practice known euphemistically in the Indian press as "Dowry Death" in which young brides who have brought insufficient dowries are murdered by their husbands and in-laws, frequently by being burned alive, so that the man can marry again and gain a fresh dowry.
- http://www.aatrevue.com

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Salaam    2004

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
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