Apsara, Bombay’s most infamous dancer, lives with her iron-willed mother, Padma, in an apartment by the sea. Padma takes money from men so they can watch her daughter perform a mesmerizing dance. When a mysterious blind man named Kamal visits for a private dance, his secret link to their past threatens to change each of their lives forever.
Contains monologues
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2005, Theatre Centre, Toronto
2005
Playwrights Canada Press
9781770917668
Sexual content, violent content. Also in "Love, Loss and Longing, South Asian Plays" (https://archive.org/details/lovelosslongings0000unse). Winner Dora Mavor Moore Award.
Sexual content, violent content. Also in "Love, Loss and Longing, South Asian Plays" (https://archive.org/details/lovelosslongings0000unse). Winner Dora Mavor Moore Award.
Realistic
Follows life of widowed mother and her 2 children, Steve who lost his hearing at age 11 and Mimi who wants to leave the family and study architecture in Ontario. Language differences (Cantonese, English and ASL)create conflicts between the family members as they struggle to understand and communicate their needs and desires.
Stylized
Julia de Maria Auxiliadora, an aging woman in Colombia fights to maintain a sense of self as she succumbs to Alzheimer’s. As Julia’s lifetime of memories unravels, her adopted daughter Angela returns from Toronto to care for her, and to make one last desperate attempt to resolve their conflicted relationship while Julia still recognizes her.
