Playwright Anuvab Pal<\/A> has a new play in staged reading this Saturday, March 26th, 7pm at the Queens Museum of Art. The play is ‘a historical comedy set in a Savile Row suit shop.’ He writes:<\/P>\n The QMA is currently hosting art exhibits<\/A> from both American desis and the subcontinent. Here’s the rest of their theater schedule:<\/P>\n The museum is also hosting dance performances throughout this weekend. Full details here<\/A>.<\/P>\n Update:<\/STRONG> Vernacular Body reviews <\/A>Out of Fashion<\/A>:<\/EM><\/P>\n Playwright Anuvab Pal has a new play in staged reading this Saturday, March 26th, 7pm at the Queens Museum of Art. The play is ‘a historical comedy set in a Savile Row suit shop.’ He writes: It’s called Out of … Continue reading It’s called Out of Fashion<\/EM> and it’s an hour long comedy about British tailors, Indian fashion designers, Irish patent clerks and Indian freedom fighters. It attempts to be funny. Would be great to see you there.<\/BLOCKQUOTE>\n
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The play was good fun, despite the absence of props and an abundance of wild accent shifts: neither the upper-crustish (fathers) nor the Dublinish was particularly convincing, and the cockney (sons) was a complete cock-up. Had a good mind to send them tapes of David Beckham talking, innit? But there was much wild punnery to be had, Alfred J. Prufrock played a major role, andapt indeed was the nudge-nudge wink-wink cleverness of the Monty-Python-meets-Falstaff variety (which I happen to like) as the play was set in a Saville Row tailor shop. I confirmed with the playwright<\/A> afterwards that Wilde and Stoppard were major influences on his sensibility.<\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"