{"id":4167,"date":"2007-02-06T23:15:51","date_gmt":"2007-02-07T04:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=4167"},"modified":"2007-02-06T20:53:30","modified_gmt":"2007-02-07T01:53:30","slug":"getting_naga_in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/06\/getting_naga_in\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Naga in Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having had to close down our bureau offices in Los Angeles at the end of December and subsequently moving to Houston, I&#8217;ll admit that I&#8217;ve been missing the wonderful desi arts scene out in L.A. Fortunately, Houston has the fourth largest desi population in the U.S. and with it comes an emerging arts scene out here that is full of possibility. On that note, <font style=\"background-color: #ffd2bd\">this Friday<\/font> I will be attending Houston-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shunyatheatre.org\/productions.htm\">Shunya<\/a> Theater&#8217;s<\/a> production of the play <em>Naga Mandala<\/em>:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shunyatheatre.org\/\"><img class=picture height=433 hspace=20 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/images\/nagamand_1.jpg\" width=280 align=right vspace=10 border=0><\/a>:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>Combining two traditional Indian oral tales, Naga Mandala features a story-within-a-story. A cursed playwright must stay awake all night in the temple, and as he attempts to do so he meets the spirit of a Story who slipped out of an old woman&#8217;s mouth as she snored. The Story is that of a young bride who is neglected by her indifferent husband and attempts to win his affection with a love potion; instead, she enchants a King Cobra who begins to visit her every night while her husband is away.<\/p>\n<p>A play in English featuring original music by the Shunya musicians and dance choreography by Mahira \n<p>Stages Repertory Theatre <br \/>3201 Allen Parkway <br \/>Houston, TX 77019 <br \/>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shunyatheatre.org\/stages.htm\">Directions to theatre<\/a>) <br \/><font style=\"background-color: #ffd2bd\">February 9th &#8211; February 25th<\/font> <br \/>Fridays and Saturdays at 8 PM, Sundays at 3PM <\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I know that I haven&#8217;t had the time to organize a Texas meet-up yet (it will have to wait until March), so hopefully I will see some SM readers at this play.  Tickets are still available as far as I know.<\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having had to close down our bureau offices in Los Angeles at the end of December and subsequently moving to Houston, I&#8217;ll admit that I&#8217;ve been missing the wonderful desi arts scene out in L.A. Fortunately, Houston has the fourth &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/06\/getting_naga_in\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}