I’m delighted to be feverishly at work on the UK premieres of two award-winning new plays from India, which will be staged at Curve later this year as part of a major celebration of local talent, supported by the Royal Court and the British Council. Pereira’s Bakery at 76 Chapel Road by Ayeesha Menon and OK Tata Bye Bye by Purva Naresh, are two extraordinary new plays charting life in 21st Century India from urban and rural perspectives. Addressing issues as varied as business corruption and female emancipation, the plays together offer an often hilariously funny, quite frank contemplation of the complexity and diversity of modern life within India itself, and play quite provocatively with some of the cliches and stereotypes sometimes associated with Indian characters onstage.
Suba Das Directs 