FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS 3.0 // MORE MIRCHI. NO MILK.
Your favourite subversive South Asian anthology which returns this year with a brand-new collection of bite-sized plays. After two sell-out seasons, Prayas Theatre and Agaram Productions return with their reimagined new show featuring NEW homegrown writing highlighting a range of NEW experiences from our next gen of creatives and NEW collaborations.
FWP3.0 features 4 new scripted works, that were written over the period of lockdown in 2020 and 2 devised shows which investigate patterns of gender norms, relationships, and intergenerational conflict.
DATE: 13 APR – 24 APRIL
TIME: 8PM
VENUE: Basement Theatre, Lower Greys Ave, Auckland City Centre
Directed & Curator || Sananda Chatterjee
Producer || Marianne Infante
Executive Producers || Amit Ohdedar & Ahi Karunaharan
Producer Interns || Adel Abied, Sayanti Chatterjee, Farhein Akmal
Stage Manager || Lisa Joe
Assistant SM || Farhein Akmal
Set Designer || Natasha Iyer
Lighting Designer & Operator || Paul Bennett
Costume Designer || Padma Akula
Costume Assistant || Emmanuel Lowen
Music Director || Sayanti Chatterjee
Music Assistant || Ritesh Vaghela
Marketing Adviser || Alisha Iyer
Pearly Shells by Mereana Latimer
Dramaturg Justine Simei-Barton
This play is about memory and connection, inspired by her Kūki ‘Āirani Nana who came to Aotearoa as a teenage
Cast: Ayesha Heble as Vani, Sudeepta Vyas as Pearl
The Interview by Aman Bajaj & Tim Booth
Dramaturg Margaret-Mary Hollins
A driven young graduate who thinks that he is interviewing for a position at a prestigious accounting firm when things start to unravel.
Cast: Cristina Anaid Alvarado Useche as Miss Perkins, Agustya Chandra as Manpreet, Gemishka Chetty as Kavita
Mirror by Nirvana Haldar
Dramaturg Margaret-Mary Hollins
A wartime correspondent reminisces about their connection to their family and the patterns they repeat in their life.
Cast: Jehangir Homavazir as Devan, Utsav K. Patel as Jaiman
12 Years Too Late by Mayen Mehta
Dramaturg Dione Joseph
Two distant brothers attempt to reconcile before their late father’s will reading.
Cast: Narme Deva as Alex, Sangeeta Hariharan as Leena
Don’t Go Under The Bridge
An exploration of the internalized anxieties, social patterns and relationships with society in modern day Aotearoa
Cast: Gemishka Chetty (lead devisor), Andrea Gerstenmaier, Devika Mhetar, Reshma Madhi, Narme Deva
My Name is SRK
An investigation of the values of personal and social progress.
Cast: Daniel Fernandez (lead devisor), Aakar Vyas, Gaurav Juneja, Ruzbeh Palsetia, Pawa Rao, Anil Kumar Balguhar, Utsav K. Patel
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