Mumbai’s theatrewallahs light as bakers, photographers and dancers

Part of a Moonlight Café team

Last October, Shivani Vakil Savant of The Odd Hour Kitchen was invited to set adult a case during an event. The entertainment manager, play clergyman and actor, who bakes in her gangling time, realised it was too most to take on alone, so she called on her friends. “Some of us are compared with entertainment though in a giveaway time, we also prepare and bake. So, when we got a offer, we suspicion because not entice some of them too,” she says. Their initial case was a hit, and they were tagged a ‘dramatic bakers’.

Rahul da Cunha

“I’ve always been a moonlighter, doing some-more than dual things during a time. We had fun so suspicion of doing it some-more often,” adds Savant. Thus, Moonlight Café was born. It consists of theatrewallahs – actors, producers, play teachers – who light as home chefs and bakers. Besides Savant, there is actor and voice-over artist Dilshad Edibam Khurana of Dough Re Mi; actors, producers and voice-over artists Prerna and Preetika Chawla of Pickle Shickle; writer and organic store owners Reetha Balsaver of Tossed Dressed salad smoothness service; and actor, executive Shivani Tanksale of The Baking Game.

(From left) Shivani Vakil Savant, Shivani Tanksale, Reetha Balsavar, and Preetika and Prerna Chawla

This weekend will be a initial time that this organisation will light their culinary skills together. They will be assimilated by other artistic entertainment people, during an event, patrician Moonlighting during Vintage Garden. It will underline a café, workshops, a flea market, a jamming eventuality and special performances.

Expect workshops on spike art, make-up, intent theatre, photography (conducted by Digvijay Sawant and Rahul da Cunha), art and expression, rapping, Lavani and even how to upcycle plastic. The opening choice includes Stand Up: A Serious Play About Comedy, a play by AkVarious Productions, and an act by Improv Comedy Mumbai. Others have approached a organisation to replicate a idea. “We’d like to make it a unchanging eventuality with moonlighters from opposite professions,” shares Savant.

On: May 6, 7; 11 am to 10.30 pm
At: The Vintage Garden, Patkar Bungalow, 34D Turner Road, Bandra (W).
Log on to: insider.in
Cost: Rs 500 to Rs 2,000

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