ANNUAL OLD WORLD COLLEGIATE THEATRE FESTIVAL

FEB 20 - 27, 2016

Feb.20 & 22 | 7:00pm
Sangharsh, Shaheed Bhagat Singh College (Evening)
Run For Your Wife Multilingual/65mins

Directors & Adaptation : Karan Juneja & Sahil Verma | Playwright : Ray Cooney
Synopsis: Set in South Delhi, it is the story of a taxi driver Rohan Arora who has two wives in different homes and relies heavily on a precise schedule to make these two marriages work. Trouble ensues when a head injury causes his schedule to go awry.

Feb.20 & 22 | 8:20pm
Shakespeare Society, St. Stephen's College
Snoop Dog Bilingual/40mins

Director & Playwright : Ruchi Chaudhury
Synopsis: Snoop Dog is an original play inspired by Saadat Hasan Manto's short story, The Dog of Tithwal. The play follows the fate of an unassuming stray mongrel that gets caught in the crossfire of two staunchly opposed rival camps of vegetarians and non-vegetarians.

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Feb.21 & 23 | 7:00pm
Shunya, Ramjas College
Deluxe Hair Cutting Saloon Hindi/60mins

Directors : Shobhit Bhatia & Dewang Mulani | Playwright: Sandeep Shikhar
Synopsis: Deluxe Hair Cutting Saloon borrows from life as experienced in any small town establishment that can be found in our metropolitan cities.
The play's axis is a barber shop named Deluxe Hair Cutting Saloon that shares space with Jai Ambe Motors, a motor mechanic workstation, and Das Pathology Lab.

Feb.21 & 23 | 8:15pm
Vayam, Shivaji College
Syaahi Hindi/55mins

Director : : Aakash Bhardwaj | Playwright: An amalgamation of three plays by Vijay Tendulkar
Synopsis: Caught in the cobweb of his writings, the protagonist is perplexed between the surreal and the real, which is a resultant of the intertwining of his actions with his thoughts.

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Feb.24 & 25 | 7:00pm
Fourth Wall Productions, Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies
Art English/60mins

Director, Adaptation & Lights : : Diivit Kumar | Playwright: Yasmina Reza
Synopsis: This play which raises serious questions about art and friendship, concerns three long time friends- Sameer, Mathur and Yohan.

Feb.24 & 25 | 8:15pm
Verbum, Sri Venkateswara College
Veronica's Room English/70mins

Director : : Sahir Mehta & Aakriti Goswami | Playwright: Ira Levin
Synopsis: Lonely caretakers of the Carrasco mansion, the Salgaonkars have a chance meeting with Aakash and Tara. Due to her strong resemblance to Veronica Carrasco, the long- dead daughter of the family, the caretakers gradually convince Tara to pretend to be Veronica to bring solace to her dying sister Michelle, who believes that Veronica is still alive.

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Feb.26 & 27 | 7:00pm
Abhivyakti, Maitreyi College
Uncivilised Daughters Bilingual/55mins

Director : : Sana Thapa | Playwright: Kuldeep Kunal
Synopsis: Uncivilised Daughters raises questions about women's sexuality, their bodies, and attempts to understand the internalized oppressions and the cultural conditioning with which women are forced to live.

Feb.26 & 27 | 8:10pm
The Players, Kirori Mal College
Viraag Bilingual/45mins

Directors & Adaptation : : Naval Garg & Shobhit Agarwal | Playwright: Israel Horovitz
Synopsis: The play explores the lack of communication that occurs between people who have no shared language and culture. The ease with which two friends look at a third person, who is different from them, as a 'lesser' being � even to the extent of denying him a shared humanity � is explored in our play through the use of two languages, one of which is intended to be inaccessible to the audience as well.