PARTAP SHARMA (1939 - )
| Nationality: | Indian |
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Plays by Partap Sharma
Begum Sumroo |
| 1st Produced: | Mumbai | 1997 | ||
| Company: | Alyque Padamsee Productions, Mumbai | |||
| 1st Published: | Rupa & Co., Delhi | 2004 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Historical | Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: A smash hit in Bombay (now called Mumbai). Would make an excellent film. Optioned three times but producers could not raise sufficient funds. | ||||
Synopsis: An Indian woman who was a dancer takes over a military brigade of European mercenaries and leads them to fortune and philosophy. | ||||
Sammy! |
| 1st Produced: | Florence Gould Hall, NY | 2006 | ||
| Company: | World on Stage | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Historical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 9 actors | |||
Notes: This play is scheduled to be produced and published in India during the course of the year 2004. | ||||
Synopsis: Sammy! is a play in two acts about the irrepressible Mahatma in Gandhi. Through a sporadic debate between two actors, full of Gandhi's hallmark humor, it traces the development of the young and naive Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi from a protestor in South Africa into a shrewd politician, and then into an enlightened person-a Mahatma or Great Soul. Press release | ||||
Touch Of Brightness, A |
| 1st Produced: | 1967 | |||
| Company: | English Stage Company | |||
| 1st Published: | Grove Press Inc., New York | 1968 | ||
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| Genre: | Contemporary/Sociological | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | Two incidental male characters | |||
Notes: Selected for performance at first Commonwealth Arts Festival in Britain but when Indian National Theatre tried to produce it in 1965, the troupe's passports were impounded and the play was banned. Seven years later, the Bombay High Court lifted the ban. | ||||
Synopsis: A girl is sold into postitution and a young boy who thinks of her as his sister tries to save her but she refuses to be rescued. | ||||
Zen Katha |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Rupa & Co., New Delhi | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Historical | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | A chorus of men & women | |||
Notes: This play is also scheduled to be produced and published in India during the course of the year 2004. | ||||
Synopsis: The Zen Katha of Bodhidharma is about the founder of zen who was also a master of martial arts. He went from India to China in 425 A.D. He fled from the demands of a throne but could not so easily escape the woman who loved him. | ||||