Desipina
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Seven Writers. Given 11 Minutes. And a Convenience Store.

For the third straight season, Desipina & Co. and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum theater present

SEVEN.11.2005

Dates: April 1-18
Time: Thursday-Saturday & Monday at 8pm; Sunday Matinee at 3pm
Location: Lower East Side Tenement Museum, 97 Orchard Street (between Broome and Delancey)
Tickets: $15 General, $11 Students/Seniors, $10 Museum Members
Reservations: Call 1.800.965.4827 or go to www.ticketweb.com

Join us for the third year in a row for seven all new stories set in a convenience store!

Director: G.R. Johnson
Production Manager: Vince Hokia
Musical Director: Samrat Chakrabarti
Producing Director: Rohi Mirza Pandya
Publicity: Gitesh Pandya
Dramaturgs: Rehana Mirza, Jon Kern, Elizabeth Emmons
Costume Design: Jenny Fisher
Stage Manager: Catherine Lee
Graphic Design: Niloufer Moochhala

With all new plays:

Anuvab Pal's PARIS
Paris is a play about an 11 minute conversation without consequence on a lazy Paris afternoon.

Celena Cipriaso's SALESGIRL
In Salesgirl, two strangers, at different points in their romantic relationship, examine the nature of love.

Rishi Chowdhary's COLOR ME DESI
A liquor-run to the convenience store before the big desi party uncovers that there are more shades of brown than there are colors to Holi.

J.P. Chan's BECKONING CAT
Waiting for the lucky numbers at a convenience store can prove to be an unlucky business.

Debargo Sanyal's S.A.M.O.S.A
Students Ho, Cho, and Mo get down and dirty with student club politics and deli snacks.

Rachel Astarte Piccione's INTIMATE WITH THE LOCALS
In malaria pill-induced paranoia, Evie, an insomniac writer, recounts her recent heartbreak in Bombay to Mohit, the store clerk who truly deserves her heart.

Samrat Chakrabarti/Sanjiv Jhaveri's new musical SOONDERELLA: a fairy tale of a different colour.

Featuring:
Jackie Chung, Andrew Guilarte, Kavi Ladnier*, Jackson Loo*, Lethia Nall*, Debargo Sanyal*, John Wu.
*Appearing courtesy of Actor's Equity.

The only way to follow up with last year's wildly successful A Very Desi Christmas, a pop musical adaptation of Scrooge, is with another 11-minute musical set in the convenience store...

This performance was made possible by LMCC's fund for Creative Communities/NYSCA.