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MUTHALAND
by Minita GandhiMUTHALAND
by Minita GandhiInspired by conversations with her parents about their life journeys, MUTHALAND tells of a young woman’s trip to India for her brother’s arranged marriage. During the trip, she unearths family secrets, encounters a prophet, and ultimately discovers her voice within a culture of silence. In this dark comedy about identity, spirituality, and sexuality, the distinction between familiar and foreign becomes blurred.
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About the Playwright
Minita Gandhi (MUTHALAND) is a playwright/actress who was born in Mumbai, India. Raised in the Bay Area, Minita cultivated an artistic home for herself in Chicago for over a decade before moving to Los Angeles, where she currently resides. MUTHALAND recently finished a West Coast run at PCPA Theaterfest in October 2018, following the sold-out run of its WORLD PREMIERE production at 16th Street Theater (Chicago), where it was extended twice before it closed at the end of October 2017. MUTHALAND was workshopped and developed in Chicago at Silk Road Rising Theater and was an official selection of the Ignition Festival of New Plays at Victory Gardens (2016), the CAATA Festival at Oregon Shakespeare Festival (2016), the Statera Foundation for Women in the Arts Conference at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts (2016), the Age and Gender Equity in the Arts Symposium (2017), and has been performed at colleges and universities around the country. It was also selected for the Anne Frank Social Justice Festival at SUNY in Buffalo, NY (2017) and for The Great Performances Series at Hope College in Holland, MI (2019).
