On stage again after two years!

On the 25th of November I shall be going back on stage after a gap of two years and I'm as excited as a little boy who's expecting a bicycle for Christmas.

I usually stay off the stage when I'm directing but the call is too strong for me to resist this time. We're staging a set of disparate scenes by different writers, segued into a single one-act play by running a dramatic thread through the whole thing that links each scene. I don't know of any other plays that have been written this way. It's certainly a first for Pune. It's called "I Am Amuse" (sic).

I play Mr. Deshpande, middle-aged and middle-class, who has a running dialogue with the MUSE, the two of them introducing each piece and thus linking them all into one cohesive play.

It's to be staged at "Soul", the Jazz Garden's new avatar.

Deepak