Gandhi and Coconuts
From: Wednesday, 9th February 2011
To: Saturday, 12 February 2011
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Synopsis
Fed up with a lifeless marriage, Asha escapes to the India of her imagination. When Mahatma Gandhi and friends suddenly arrive for tea and jelabies, she is inspired to transform herself and reignite her relationship. As her confused husband struggles to keep the wife he once had, this playful, surprising and moving play asks if it’s better to be sane or happy?
Our Review:
Karen Bussell - 9 February 2011
THERE are giggles aplenty in Kali Theatre Company’s latest offering Gandhi and Coconuts by Bettina Gracias (on tour and seen at Plymouth’s Theatre Royal). But below the humour lies serious contemplation of sanity v. happiness and the sacrifices made to fit into a foreign culture.
Asha, engagingly played by Coronation Street’s Sophiya Haque, has left her vibrant community in Goa to live in a drab high rise in a hostile UK so her husband (Rez Kempton) can earn enough to send financial support to the extended family at home.
Alice Hoult’s 2D monochrome set poignantly reflects the tedium of Asha’s enforced isolation and colourless life where neighbours are racist and shopkeepers taciturn.
Afraid to go out and with no friends to invite in, her life consists of cleaning, cooking (with coconut), waiting on her exhausted husband and a quick ‘sneeze in the dark’ on Saturday nights. That is until a trio of unlike...
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Bettina Gracias (Author)
Kali Theatre (Company)
Janet Steel (Director)
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