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written
by
Terrence
McNally
directed
by Sāmir
Bhamra
Margaret
and
Katharine,
two
outwardly
unremarkable
middle-aged
lady
friends,
turn the
pilgrimage
tradition
on its
head
when
they
throw
themselves
into a
rousing
tour of
India,
each
having
her own
secret
dreams
of what
the
fabled
land of
exotic
and
intoxicating
opposites
will do
for the
suffering
she
hides
within.
Margaret
has just
discovered
a lump
in her
breast
but
hasn't
told her
friend.
The more
theatrical
and
adventurous
Katharine
seeks a
respite
from the
haunting
tragic
death of
her son
Walter.
Faced
with the
women's
despair,
who but
the
golden
Hindu
elephant
god
Ganesha
could
intervene?
Fluid in
his
power to
assume
any
guise,
at peace
with all
things,
Ganesha
is the
spiritual
centre
around
which
the play
spins
itself,
drawing
upon the
tragic
and the
comic,
the
beautiful
and the
deplorable,
until a
breathtaking
release
arrives
for both
women at
his
hands.
"...funny
and
moving..."
The
Telegraph,
India
"an
ambitious
mixture
of the
epic and
the
intimate"
Timeout
This
production
will
also be
touring
to India
in May
2008. |
