2009 - Citra and Melati are highly ranked youth badminton players, ready to represent Indonesia internationally. But while Melati starts traveling to play in major junior tournaments on her own, Citra immigrates with her family to Washington D.C. where she has to give up her dreams of becoming the next Susi Susanti. They both have what the other wants – Citra has her family and all the opportunities America has to offer, just not badminton; meanwhile Melati is on the path to playing professionally and representing Indonesia on the global stage, but she feels alone. Citra's new friends in D.C. and Melati's on the international badminton circuit are played by the same actors, creating mirrored worlds where these two young athletes grapple with what they really want from life. The play toggles between both girls’ experiences and asks big questions about the costs of national pride, familial expectations, and what it means to figure out who you are away from where you’re from.

THE ELEPHANT IS VERY LIKE is about a woman who cannot say any words that have not first been spoken to her and a man who tries and fails and tries again to help her. They find themselves in a nebulous space, which magically provides them tools – if they know how to ask. A bilingual trio of performers operates like a Greek chorus, at least to the man. To the woman, they are a trio of kathakars, storytellers from the South Asian dance-theatre tradition Kathak.

Kate and Hailey fell in love hard and got married fast, but do they really know each other as well as they think? On their honeymoon, floating along the serene and beautiful backwaters of Kerala on the southwestern coast of India, the newlyweds are eaten alive by both mosquitoes and the racial legacies that shape their lives. Backwaters is an audio play that asks how well we truly know those closest to us, and if love can save us from the toxic, even lethal, cultural baggage we carry.

a long form poem that is also a play
or a short play that is also a poem
in which a chaiwallah prepares a cup of kolkata chai
and asks us to slow down
for a moment
and take some time for adda