Showcase of

THREE PLAYS

by

Atelier Theatre

in association with

the American Center

RUMORS l THE ZOO STORY l LAUGHTER ON THE 23RD FLOOR

Designed & Directed by Kuljeet Singh

February 3, 4 & 5, 2012-7:00 PM @ American Centre, New Delhi

February 8, 9 & 10, 2012 @ Law faculty auditorium, Panjab University

RUMORS (February 3 & 8, 2012)

At its start, several affluent couples gather in the posh suburban residence of a couple for a dinner party celebrating their hosts' tenth anniversary. When they arrive, they discover there are no servants, the hostess is missing, and the host - the deputy mayor of New York City - has shot himself through the earlobe. Comic complications arise when, given everyone's upper class status, they decide they need to do everything possible to conceal the evening's events from the local police and the media.

CAST

Samarth Manocha, Rashmi Ramchandani, Anshul Aggrawal, Chanchal Vashishth, Ekagra Tripathi, Dipalie Mehta, Vikas Yadav, Priyanka Kandpal, Sidhant Mago, Gurvinder Virk

CREDITS

Script: Neil Simon

Hindi Adaptation: Sarthank Parashar & Sidhant Mago

Music Design: Shashank Mehra & Samarth Manocha

Costume: Puneet Sharma & Dipalie Mehta

Production Manager: Vikas Chaturvedi & Sarthak Parashar

Lights Design: Rahul Rai

Production Head: Chandan Kumar

Co-Directors: Priyanka Kandpal & Rashmi Ramchandani

Design & Direction: Kuljeet Singh

THE ZOO STORY (February 4 & 9, 2012)

This one-act play concerns two characters, Peter and Jerry. Peter is a middle-class publishing executive with a wife, two daughters, two cats and two parakeets. Jerry is an isolated and disheartened man. These men meet on a park bench in New York City's Central Park. Jerry is desperate to have a meaningful conversation with another human being.

CAST

Tushar Dhaundiyal, Sumedh Sachdev

CREDITS

Script: Edward Albee

Lights Design: Rahul Rai

Music Design: Sudhir Rana

Production Head: Chandan Kumar

Adaptation, Design & Direction: Kuljeet Singh

LAUGHTER ON THE 23RD FLOOR (February 5 & 10, 2012)

Inspired by the playwright's youthful experience as a staff writer on Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows, with all the attendant comic drama as the harried writing staff frantically scrambles to top each other with gags while competing for the attention of star madman "Max Prince."

CAST

Rishabh Mittal, Nihal Parashar, Himanshu Mehta, Umang Agarwal, Pranav Brara, Shree Upadhyaya, Akshay Joshi, Varoon P Anand

CREDITS

Script: Neil Simon Lights Design: Rahul Rai Music Design: Sudhir Rana Production Head: Chandan Kumar

Production Manager: Himanshu Mehta Design & Direction: Kuljeet Singh

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