PLAYWRITING
Phantasmagoria 2023
Four people come together in a house in a forest for a political debate which will feature two of them as adversaries.Phantasmagoria pits the terror of speaking out against the fear of staying quiet in order to warn us about the dangers of extreme populism, unbridled social media and how fear can be manufactured and manipulated with chilling consequences…
Produced by Kali Theatre and directed by Jo Tyabji
With Antony Bunsee, Hussina Raja, Tania Rodrigues & Ulrike Krishnamurthy.
Belgrade Theatre, Coventry
Northern Stage, New Castle
Southwark Playhouse (Borough), London
Cumin 2023
Two cousins who haven’t met each other for more than two decades, now in their mid-30s are somehow in each other’s lives, and between their geographies of Bombay and Berlin. Cumin is a play about families and children, food and distance, and inherited loneliness.
Translate into German by Ulrike Syha
Represented by Drei Masken Verlag
Jagriti Theatre, Bangalore
Residenztheater, Munich
i am not here (2018)
(an 8-step guide in how to censor women's writing)
part-devised / part-written
Shortlisted for the Stückemarkt Prize, Theatretreffen, Berlin 2019
performed at:
- Ranga Shankara Theatre Festival 2018
- Nepal International Theatre Festival 2019
- Tata Literature Live! 2019
- Bharat Rang Mahotsav, National School of Drama 2020
- M1, Singapore Fringe 2021
No Rest In The Kingdom
phantasmagoria (2019-2020)
https://www.thehindu.com/theatre-fest/as-the-phantom-lurks-in-fear/article29090321.ece
- Shortlisted for The Hindu Playwright Award 2019
- Translation into German for Teamtheater's Global Festival in Munich
(produced by Sandbox Collective)
Performed in cities / premier theatre festivals / venues around india and abroad including Remembering Veenapani Festival, Adishakti, International Theatre Festival Kerala, The Hindu Metroplus Theatre Festival, The Old World Theatre Festival, Bangalore International Centre, Women of the World Festival, Colombo Sri Lanka, Kampala International Theatre Festival, Uganda
Every Inch Upstream (2017)
High school production
(commissioned by Inventure Academy)
One Dream Too Many
The Playwright is Dead (2017)
Shortlisted Finalist for The Hindu Playwright Award 2017
Jury Award Naya/Nové Specific Festival, Prague 2018
https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/theatre/words-of-a-woman/article19402205.ece
Creatures of Change (2018)
https://www.writelocalplayglobal.org/playwrights/arwind-deepika-india.html
https://howlround.com/international-collaboration-tya-new-play-development
High school production
(commissioned by Legacy School Bangalore)
Wide-Eyed Pomfret
6 short plays about aging, memory and forgetting
Nobody Sleeps Alone
- Shortlisted finalist The Hindu Playwright Award 2013
- New Writing Festival Jagriti 2014
Lovergirl
Originally commissioned by a Mumbai-based theatre company for a festival at the National Centre for Performing Arts
the theatre company withdrew and chose not to pay me after they got me to write the play, although it wasn't performed.
i think this is important to put out there: the bullet points on our (artist's) CVs are real processes that involve work, time, being undervalued and sometimes shamed for wanting to be remunerated for one's efforts.