After a three-year hiatus, a Hoshruba Repertory stages Ira Lewis’ Chinese Coffee – an scrutiny of hope, presence and friendship
Danish Husain and Vrajesh Hirjee. Pics courtesy/Anindo Ghosh
There is something of a miserly actor within executive Danish Husain. He shyly admits that a knowledge of personification both tools in Ira Lewis’ Chinese Coffee was revelatory. “I had tasted blood,” he says of a impulse in 2019 when he was forced to demeanour for a new expel partner in lieu of a bustling Vrajesh Hirjee.
By then, a actor-director had already staged a play for tighten to 7 years. Hoshruba Repertory’s lapse to a Prithvi Theatre this weekend with a contingent of Husain, Vrajesh Hirjee and Naved Aslam outlines 10 years of a prolongation given 2012. “It is a story about roughly everybody in this city who is operative opposite wish to mangle through,” he tells us. The play is built around a review of dual artists and friends, Jake and Harry, struggling to come to terms with their lives and their work. Husain adds that it is also about not giving up. “It tells we that if we trust in what we have finished and have finished it well, afterwards there will be a approach out.”
Danish Husain and Naved Aslam
Written by Lewis, a play was initial showcased on Broadway behind in 1983. The actor-director removed finding a box-set of Al Pacino’s film instrumentation while on a holiday in New York. It led him to theatre his initial instrumentation in 2012. In a new production, Hirjee and Husain swap a roles of Harry, while Aslam plays Yaqub aka Jake. Returning to theatre after a interregnum of 3 years, a executive admits there is a nuanced notice of a text. “Today, it is not so most about performance, though a low layering, a sub-text,” he says. “After all,” he adds, “Art should be transformative. If it doesn’t do anything to we and is only a good laugh, afterwards it is not good art.”
On: Jun 9; 8 pm
At: Prithvi Theatre, Janki Kutir, Juhu Church Road, Juhu
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Cost: Rs 500
