{"id":1144,"date":"2005-03-04T01:32:07","date_gmt":"2005-03-04T06:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=1144"},"modified":"2005-03-04T14:57:27","modified_gmt":"2005-03-04T19:57:27","slug":"seven_chutney_s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/04\/seven_chutney_s\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven chutney squishies, make it quick"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Desipina is again hosting its low-rent, highwire theater collection Seven.11<\/A> <\/EM>in Manhattan, and Anuvab Pal<\/A> is contributing a new piece called Paris.<\/EM> The schtick is that playwrights of all colors contribute seven tales of 11 minutes each, all set in convenience stores. It sounds much like 11.9.01: September 11<\/A>,<\/EM> a collection of short films 11 minutes, nine seconds and one frame long by filmmakers including Mira Nair, Sean Penn, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu<\/A> (Amores Perros),<\/EM> Samira Makhmalbaf<\/A> and Youssef Chahine<\/A>.<\/P>\n

As far as creative gimmicks go, this is a good one: even the Manhattan Project found creative benefit in time constraints, although nuclear incineration has been known to be motivating. This is the third year of Seven.11,<\/EM> so it’s clearly a successful franchise. The quick-witted Lethia Nall<\/A>, who was so <\/EM>good in Alter Ego’s production<\/A> of Tom Stoppard’s Indian Ink<\/A>,<\/EM> appears in both Paris <\/EM>and Soonderella.<\/EM><\/P>\n

Anuvab Pal’s PARIS: <\/STRONG>Paris<\/EM> is a play about an 11 minute conversation without consequence on a lazy Paris afternoon… \n

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Samrat Chakrabarti\/Sanjiv Jhaveri’s<\/STRONG> new musical SOONDERELLA:<\/B> a fairy tale of a different colour… The only way to follow up with last year’s wildly successful A Very Desi Christmas<\/B>, a pop musical adaptation of Scrooge, is with another 11-minute musical set in the convenience store…<\/BLOCKQUOTE>\n

It’s also a clear demarcation between Right and Left Coast desi stereotypes; the Left Coast analogue would be 80 tales of 86 engineers, but who’d go see it? Bugaboo<\/A><\/EM> and nerdcore<\/A> call my bluff. \n

Seven.11, <\/EM>4\/1-4\/18\/05, Thurs-Sat & Mon at 8pm, Sun at 3pm; The Tenement Theatre, 97 Orchard St. (bet. Delancey\/Broome), Manhattan; $15 General, $11 Students\/Seniors; 800-965-4827 or TicketWeb<\/A> (keyword:SEVEN.11)<\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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