State of Denial is by far Raul Varma’s best work as a playwright since Bhopal. Most astonishing is that he has mastered the voices of women in crises and in extremis with elegance and poetic savagery. This is a painfully difficult play to produce, but Teesri Duniya has taken the challenge and for the most part succeeded where no other theatre company would dare to go.

Scary Tales and Broken Hearts takes you into the world of your childhood in which anything can be imagined, yet nothing is quite as you expect.  The dancers of Entre-Deux take the audience through a series of vignettes inspired by fairy tales, your wildest dreams, and your darkest fears.

In Absentia at the Centaur is a play fraught with symbolism. There are bare trees, a frozen river, the endless winter and the barren (or is she?) heroine of the piece. When Collette’s husband goes missing in Colombia while working for an oil company, she hunkers down and plays psychic possum. Her older sister Evelyn, [...]