Meet the Productions

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BLUE LOTUS BURNING
Presented by Ebong TheatriX
Based on a Bengali writing by Dr. Asish Goswami
Written, Directed and Designed by Arindam Ghosh
Music and Sound Design by Mayookh Bhaumik
Performed by Shampa Basu and Arindam Ghosh

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Pritilata Waddedar was twenty-one years old when she died. She had passed her intermediate examinations first among girls and fifth overall. She had earned a scholarship to Bethune College in Calcutta. She had read philosophy, kept a diary, loved music, and tended to a childhood by a village pond in Chittagong where blue lotuses grew. She had also, by the night of September 24, 1932, led an armed raid on a British colonial establishment, taken a bullet, ordered her comrades to leave her, and swallowed cyanide so she would not be captured.

Blue Lotus Burning is the story of that life — and the argument it started that has never quite ended.

The play conjures Pritilata from death for one final accounting before an Interrogator who represents not colonial brutality but something more familiar: the voice of order, of pragmatism, of individual achievement as the only sensible measure of a life. What unfolds is not a trial but a reckoning — was this a life wasted or completed? That question refuses to stay historical. It lives wherever someone exceptional chooses purpose over security and is asked, by someone who genuinely cannot understand why, to justify that choice.

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GRACE PERIOD: TEN DAYS
Presented by Aabaha, Atlanta
Playwright: Kallol Nandi | Director: Kallol Nandi

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Grace Period Ten Days follows Samar and Anikha, a settled immigrant couple in suburban Atlanta, whose lives are upended when Samar's visa renewal is suddenly denied — ending his work authorization immediately and giving the family just ten days to leave. As their American-born son Advik watches his "home" turn into paperwork, the family races through humiliating corporate protocols, an attorney consult that offers no certainty, a frantic attempt to sell their house, and a painful school withdrawal — while their community gathers with love that can't change the clock. In the final days, even "going back" isn't simple: they must scramble to secure somewhere to land in India, confronting the terrifying question of whether they're leaving one home only to arrive without another.

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GOTROHEEN
Presented by DFW Play, Dallas
Playwright: Rudraprasad Sengupta | Director: Rajarshi Bhattacharyya

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Gotroheen is a powerful family drama that probes the fragile boundaries of love, honor, and belonging in a South Asian immigrant world. Inspired by Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge, the play centers on Salek, a proud Bangladeshi grocer in New York's Jackson Heights. Living with his perceptive wife Zainab and their orphaned niece Shaheen, Salek's authority is absolute — until two undocumented cousins arrive seeking refuge. As Shaheen falls in love, Salek's protective concern hardens into jealousy and obsession. Caught between tradition and change, honor and desire, Salek's struggle to control his world tears apart the very family he longs to preserve.

 

BOLI
Presented by Kotha Kotha, Houston
Playwright: Tripti Mitra | Director: Manas Saha

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One night, some hours, and a few strugglers drenched in exasperating desperation. The establishment, the anti-establishment, the husbands, the wives, the helpless, the helpful, the bystander and the victims relentlessly interact and attempt to switch colors. All holding a mirror before us to reinstate the ruthless differences between living and existing. A powerful soul is so powerless, a family so unfamiliar, and responsibilities so irresponsible — Tripti Mitra mercilessly knits the texture with absolute aplomb.

 

DUI SHUNYO SHUNYO
Presented by Chicago NatyoGoshthi
Playwright: Pinaki Guha (adapted from a short story by Kiran Maitra) | Director: Pratik Chakraborty

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This drama explores the tension between two friends. While love, compassion, and humanity strengthen their bond on one hand, jealousy, greed, and selfishness try to tear it apart on the other. The friendship of these two is tested against the backdrop of these two opposing emotions — and the question becomes not just who will survive, but what of themselves they will lose along the way.