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Monday, March 19, 2007 - 7:00 PM
Women's History Month celebration (doors open at 6:45pm)

SALAAM 3rd Mondays
Geeta Citygirl, Artistic Director
invites you to a reading of a full-length play,

TAMASHA
written by Anjalee Deshpande Nadkarni
directed by Neil B. Shah

CAST:  Yasser Akhtar, Diksha Basu, Eliyas Qureshi, Adam Ludwig, Sirisha Nandi, Taniya Sen, Nandita Shenoy, Aladdin Ullah.

After the reading, please stay to enjoy some refreshments, snacks and our much-loved vegetarian samosas.
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SYNOPSIS:  Three South Asian sisters struggle to define love, marriage and family for themselves and each other in a new adaptation of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters.

Forced to move from cosmopolitan New York City to a small suburban town in Wisconsin, three sisters struggle with loneliness, identity and the confusing world of Indian relationships in the US.  Oma, the oldest, struggles to understand why a smart mature thirty something professional is completely unable to find an Indian man to date, let alone to love no matter what she does. Megana, the middle sister, is torn between the man she married and the one she loves - what does commitment mean to an Indian American woman?  Ishti, the youngest has an Indian suitor who is completely in love with her, but all she can think about is how she will never feel attracted to an Indian man no matter how hard she tries. Each must decide for herself when to settle and when to fight for what they want as South Asian women living in America.
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SALAAM Theatre
16 West 32nd Street - 10th floor
Between Fifth Avenue and Broadway
New York, NY 10001

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

Donations are encouraged
Nobody is turned away due to lack of funds.
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ABOUT THE WRITER:  Anjalee Deshpande Nadkarni is a playwright/actor/director currently residing in Syracuse, NY. Anjalee, a graduate of the MFA directing program at Northwestern University, studied under Robert Falls of the Goodman Theatre. Before and after graduate school, Ms. Nadkarni freelanced as an actor /director. Anjalee’s acting credits include projects filmed in NY, Chicago, London and Mumbai. Of her acting roles, her favorites remain the 1996 film; Once We Were Strangers which competed at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival; and the 1998 CBN television special The Prodigal Daughter which aired in India on D-TV.  Anjalee currently teaches at Le Moyne College and continues to write whenever her 22mo. old son allows.
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Neil B. Shah, Anjalee Deshpande Nadkarni, Geeta Citygirl at SALAAM.

Post-reading discussion at SALAAM Theatre.

TAMASHA - cast of actors.

Producer of the Producer, ASHA CHOPRA with 2007 intern, Mona Toor.

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SALAAM 3rd Mondays has been going strong since the year 2000 and we assure you that we will continue to link all peoples and all the arts in the spirit of progressive solidarity.  Heartfelt thanks for your donations which are our lifeblood.  For an energizing and engaging event, make it SALAAM time.  SALAAM Theatre is a proud member of THAW - Theaters Against War.
http://www.SALAAMtheatre.org