In a cultural landmark of sorts, a mainstream American theater production will explore the lessons learned in a comic cross-cultural encounter as an American travel writer visits Agra in Tanya Shaffer’s play “Baby Taj.” The play, produced by TheatreWorks, will run at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts in Mountain View, California.
“It’s an interaction between two cultures, two worlds and hopefully they both all the characters learn something from each other,” Shaffer said during an interview. Shaffer, whose previous award-winning solo performance play “Let My Enemy Live Long!"was called “a tour de force of observation and evocation” by the San Francisco Chronicle, has set this play mostly in India. With a cast of 10 Indian Americans, this is a rare play produced by mainstream American theater that focuses on contemporary Indians.
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