<p>As part of the Deccan Herald Theatre Festival, ‘Play Pen’ will stage ‘Marry Go Round’ at Chowdiah Memorial Hall on February 28 at 7.30 pm. <br /><br /></p>.<p>It is about arranged marriages, multi-cultural identities and the generation gap. Set in Hyderabad, it is about a determined mother using blatant emotional blackmail to inveigle her NRI son into a marriage with the right sort of desi girl; a reluctant groom with a live-in girlfriend following him all the way to India; a bride on the rebound from a disastrous liaison with a married man; skeletons rattling in old family cupboards; an aunt on the vengeance trail. <br /><br />It is a heady cocktail of an arranged wedding that morphs into a love marriage with the wrong girl with a little tactical help from long-dead ancestors. ‘Marry Go Round’ is one quaint combination of today’s merrily irreverent humour and a staid Hyderabadi milieu with its Nawabi hangover from grandiose times long past. <br /><br />The play is directed by Ashish Sen and written by Sadiqa Peerbhoy. It will also be staged at Jagriti on March 5 and 6 at 7.30 pm and Ranga Shankara on March 10 at 7.30 pm. On February 26 and 27, ‘Centre for Film and Drama’ will stage ‘In Such a State’ at Jagriti at 7.30 pm. It is based on Dr UR Ananthamurthy’s novel ‘Avasthe’. <br /><br />Tickets are available at Deccan Herald, MG Road, between 10 am to 5 pm. For more information, call 25880147/ 25880141. Tickets are priced at Rs 500, Rs 300 and Rs 100 at Chowdiah Memorial Hall and Rs 300 at Ranga Shankara and Jagriti. </p>
<p>As part of the Deccan Herald Theatre Festival, ‘Play Pen’ will stage ‘Marry Go Round’ at Chowdiah Memorial Hall on February 28 at 7.30 pm. <br /><br /></p>.<p>It is about arranged marriages, multi-cultural identities and the generation gap. Set in Hyderabad, it is about a determined mother using blatant emotional blackmail to inveigle her NRI son into a marriage with the right sort of desi girl; a reluctant groom with a live-in girlfriend following him all the way to India; a bride on the rebound from a disastrous liaison with a married man; skeletons rattling in old family cupboards; an aunt on the vengeance trail. <br /><br />It is a heady cocktail of an arranged wedding that morphs into a love marriage with the wrong girl with a little tactical help from long-dead ancestors. ‘Marry Go Round’ is one quaint combination of today’s merrily irreverent humour and a staid Hyderabadi milieu with its Nawabi hangover from grandiose times long past. <br /><br />The play is directed by Ashish Sen and written by Sadiqa Peerbhoy. It will also be staged at Jagriti on March 5 and 6 at 7.30 pm and Ranga Shankara on March 10 at 7.30 pm. On February 26 and 27, ‘Centre for Film and Drama’ will stage ‘In Such a State’ at Jagriti at 7.30 pm. It is based on Dr UR Ananthamurthy’s novel ‘Avasthe’. <br /><br />Tickets are available at Deccan Herald, MG Road, between 10 am to 5 pm. For more information, call 25880147/ 25880141. Tickets are priced at Rs 500, Rs 300 and Rs 100 at Chowdiah Memorial Hall and Rs 300 at Ranga Shankara and Jagriti. </p>
