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The Khoj : The Search
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“Sitting in a theatre in Auckland among a predominantly Indian audience watching an Indian play in English is not a common experience.”
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- On the Asian Report today;”squatting or sitting!”Jason Moon delves deep into the bowels of a new play by Indian community theatre group Prayas. Download: Ogg Vorbis MP3
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When the theatre company Prayas began planning their new production Khoj – The Search, they were keen to add a dance sequence to an already compelling storyline.
“New Zealand has embraced us with open arms, given us our home. But it is a pity that that we still feel we are outsiders.”
The above is a dialogue from the comedy-drama, Khoj, The Search, reflecting one aspect of the migrant dilemma.
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Indian theatre group looking for talent
A popular India-New Zealand theatre group is expanding its search for new talent to start in its own home-grown play in English.
Prayas, which has performed a couple of professional productions in the last three years, has this time written its own play on the migrant experience in New Zealand.
‘Khoj (The Search) explores a migrant’s emotional and acutely physical journey of adjustment from Mumbai to Sandringham, Auckland.
It is inspired by novelist Rohinton Mistry’s “Tales from Firozsha Baag” and uses humour to highlight the unanimous but poignant issues most migrants face all over the world.
Prayas wrote the play after holding a couple of discussion panels to elicit ideas from people. After a successful play reading recently Prayas is planning to stage it in August and wants to share the experience with fresh talent.
It is looking for actors between 20 – 50 years and people interested in set designing, costume and make up, back stage help as well as music and dance.
Auditions are to be held on Saturday March 21 between 4pm and 7.30pm at the Mt Roskill War Memorial Hall on May Road.
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