Sammy! An award winning play by Partap Sharma
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SAMMY! - the play
Partap Sharma's most recent play SAMMY! received rave-reviews and performed to packed houses in India, Dubai, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Brussels, Antwerp (simultaneously in French and Flemish), New York, Boston, Stanford, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston and the UK. It then went Down Under to New Zealand and Australia. It is the incredible story of Mahatma Gandhi, told by an ensemble of actors in a modern and exciting manner. Led by a lively debate between Mohandas, the man, and the irrepressible Mahatma in him, the play highlights Gandhi’s relationships and how he changed everyone he touched.The play received a standing ovation from over 700 people at the National Institute of Dramatic Art at Sydney. Fifteen-year-old Joshua saw the play with his family on Sunday evening. He said: "It is not only a good historical play, but it portrayed Gandhi as a down to earth person, someone we could relate to. He had his weaknesses, but he was a great man who overcame his faults. My parents enjoyed the play very much and they were even more pleased that all their three sons got so much out of it."
Gandhi play SAMMY! gets standing ovation
Sammy in New Zealand
Sammy in Australia
A Touch of Brightness - the play
This controversial 1964 play is about a spiritually enlightened Indian girl sold into prostitution. The BBC Third Programme first broadcast it over radio in 1967. The cast included Dame Judi Dench, and music specially composed for it by the famous sitar player, Pandit Ravi Shankar.A Touch of Brightness was re-broadcast on BBC7, in October 2007 as part of their celebration of 40 years of BBC Radio. It has the distinction of being one of the first dramas broadcast at this time that still survives in the BBC archive.
This play revolves around Rukmini, a girl sold to a brothel in Mumbai and her relationship with Pidku, a street urchin, who tries desperately to rescue her from her life as a prostitute.
Rukmini mesmerises Pidku with her visionary stories of the gods and her dreams of a married life. Even in a brothel, her extravagant optimism never ceases but only deepens.
A Touch Of Brightness: a controversial play by Partap Sharma.
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