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Monday, August 16, 2004 - 7:00 PM
doors open at 6:45pm

SALAAM 3rd Mondays
Geeta Citygirl, Artistic Director
Anuvab Pal, Literary Manager
invites you to our third installation of AWAAZ.

AWAAZ** - New Voices/ New Plays
presents a staged reading of

Mrinalini Kamath's
CELESTIAL MOTIONS
Directed by Jorelle Aronovitch.

SYNOPSIS:  CELESTIAL MOTIONS tells the story of what happens when 25-year-old Leela's parents (immigrants from India) realize that they forgot to take daylight savings time into account when they had her Hindu astrological chart drawn at her birth. They have it redrawn, and the startling prediction sets the young woman on a journey of arranged dating and cyber romance, as her parents desperately try to control her fate.   Little do they realize that Leela's destiny is closer than they (or Leela, for that matter) think.  An intercultural romantic comedy.

The talanted cast features Yasmin Kazi, Graeme Gillis, Cori Thomas, Thom Rivera, Debargo Sanyal, Denny Bess, and Sanjiv Jhaveri.

Q&A and complimentary hors d'oeuvres and libations for your pleasure.

SALAAM Theatre
16 West 32nd Street - 10th floor
Between Fifth Avenue and Broadway
New York, NY 10001

Admission by donation: (nobody is turned away due to lack of funds)
$5 minimum, $10 suggested, $15 appreciated

Reservations RECOMMENDED:
Phone: 212.330.8097
Email: rsvp@SALAAMtheatre.org

This month SALAAM 3rd Mondays happens to fall on the NEW MOON DAY.   The new moon is the phase of the moon when the moon is not visible from Earth, because the side of the moon that is facing us is not being lit by the sun.  So take time to celebrate the new moon day and join us for another memorable SALAAM salon!

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT: Mrinalini Kamath recently completed her M.F.A. in playwriting from the Actors Studio Drama School of the New School University.  Her plays have been performed around the country, as well as the United Kingdom and Australia.  She was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the 2003 Sewanee Writers™ Conference in Sewanee, TN, and a finalist for the Jerome Fellowship at the Playwrights™ Center in Minneapolis, MN.  Her short plays have been published in the Smith and Kraus anthologies, Best Stage Scenes of 1999, Best Stage Scenes of 2000 and 30 Ten-Minute Plays for 3 or More Actors: The Best of 2002-2003 (to be published later this year).  She has also been published by playscripts.com.

**AWAAZ means VOICE.
The goal of AWAAZ, other than to expose our large and diverse SALAAM audience to new and emerging writing, is to develop voices that will go on to be valuable storytellers about South Asian issues through entertaining theatricality and thereby add to the already diverse texture of the New York theatrical landscape. AWAAZ is not only to help emerging playwrights through staged readings and development workshops but also develop some of these plays with an eye to full productions for SALAAM Theatre's 2005 Season.  Please join us for each installment of our AWAAZ Play Reading Series.  You never know what special talents you'll meet so just mark your calendars and be part of this growing movement of artists and activists.  For an energizing and engaging event, make it SALAAM time.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2004 at 7PM - SALAAM's next installment of AWAAZ presents 9/10 by Richard Willett.

SALAAM Theatre - AWAAZ Team:
Geeta Citygirl, Artistic Director
Anuvab Pal, Literary Manager
Priyanka Mathew, Play Development Coordinator
Ragini Jain, Artistic Intern

SALAAM Theatre is a proud member of THAW - Theaters Against War and United for Peace and Justice.  Join us as we take to the streets during the RNC.  Details soon.