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SITA/SATI by Snehal Desai

SITA/SATI Written and directed by Snehal Desai. Part of Groundworks: New Play Series 2013

Poor Sita Desi. Her husband Apu has been killed in his prime by a slurpee machine. Now at his funeral, a wild and raucous company demand she make a choice between a public demonstration of her love for him and her own dreams. Stereotypes and myths of brown-ness are exploded, exploited, re-arranged, and re-envisioned as a woman faces a choice to become a goddess or remain mortal.

FEATURING: Purva Bedi, Geneva Carr, Samrat Chakrabarti, Adam Daveline, Laura Esposito, Nehal Joshi, Manu Narayan, Indika Senanayake, Shetal Shah, and Nandita Shenoy

SITA/SATI is presented as part of the Groundworks: New Play Series, terraNOVA's initiative to showcase new play development projects and expose this work to artistic leaders, industry professionals and the general public. This spring, terraNOVA Collective presents 7 playwrights who have developed work through the Groundbreakers Playwrights Group.

Donnetta Lavinia Grays, Lynn Rosen, Andrew Rosendorf, Jen Silverman, Susan Soon He Stanton, and Anna Ziegler are all members of the 2012-13 Groundbreakers Playwrights Group. Snehal Desai is Groundbreaker alum from 2009-10.

All performances will take place at the New Ohio Theatre, 154 Christopher Street, between Greenwich and Washington.