Baby Taj
- Full Length Play, Comedy, Present Day, Contemporary
- 5M, 6F
- ISBN: 9780573698422
A beautiful play...[Shaffer] has brilliantly integrated theatricality through the story of...the building of this famous fairy tale palace.
Talkin Broadway
...Depicts the characters in all their contradictions and with such clarity that the humorous result is full of delicate reflections on caring and family.
Silicon Valley Metro
Description
- Full Length Play
- Comedy
- Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
- Target Audience: Adult
- Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
- Cautions: Mild Adult Themes
- Performance Group:
- Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Reader's Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
- Accolades:
- Nominee! American Theatre Critics' Association Steinberg Award
Nominee! Bay Area Theatre Critic's Award
Top Ten Shows of the Year! San Francisco Chronicle; the Oakland Tribune;
San Jose Mercury News
The legendary Taj Mahal is the next assignment for Rachel, an American travel writer whose failed romances have led her to ask: Why not have the baby she craves - on her own? She finds unexpected answers – and larger questions - among the glittering legacies of India's past.
Alive with the sounds and colors of a remarkable country, this bittersweet comedy of mischievous matchmaking raises provocative questions about love, friendship, family, and what it means to be ready to be a parent.
Baby Taj had developmental readings at Jeffrey Bihr Studio in Berkeley, California; The Lark Theatre in New York City; and TheatreWorks in Mountain View, California.
REVIEWS:
It's refreshing to come across a playwright who is able to write so honestly about life...Witty, poignant and frequently funny... It's hard not to get swept away.
Mountain View Voice
A captivating inquiry into love and freedom... Thrives on a witty, probing clash between freethinking modernity and tradition.
Robert Hurwitt San Francisco Chronicle
...Filled with a savvy traveler's enthusiasm for the cultural and historical rewards of her journey.
Oakland Tribune
A bundle of cross-cultural joy... Marries the breezy cynicism of the now with the eternal power of India... [Shaffer's] ear for mod-groovy lingo gives the play a to-die-for sparkle.
San Jose Mercury News
Provocative and true, laced with snappy dialogue...
Palo Alto Weekly
A beautiful play...[Shaffer] has brilliantly integrated theatricality through the story of...the building of this famous fairy tale palace.
Talkin Broadway
...Depicts the characters in all their contradictions and with such clarity that the humorous result is full of delicate reflections on caring and family.
Silicon Valley Metro
Characters
- Casting: 5M, 6F
- Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible), Flexible casting, Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle), Expandable casting
- Casting Notes: Can be cast with 4 males and 3 females with doubling.
ANJALI - Her best friend, an Indian lesbian in her thirties who has lived in the U.S. for at least nine years. Single.
CHANDRA - Arustu's wife. Intelligent and quick-tempered. 30-ish.
SUNITA - A girl in her late teens, servant of the Sharmas.
ARUSTU - Mrs. Sharma's son. An astrologer. 30s. A prankster.
OSHO - Chandra and Arustu's six-year-old son.
MRS. SHARMA - Anjali's grandmother. A stern matriarch from Agra, India. 70s.
ABHI - Arustu's cousin. Teacher of Hindi, student of history, poet. Intellectual. 30s.
NATHAN - A friend of Rachel's. 20s or 30s.
MIKE - A friend of Rachel's. Medical intern. 20s or 30s.
TERI - Mike's wife. Medical intern also. 20s or 30s.
SAM - An ex-boyfriend of Rachel's. Mid-30s.
COURTIER, LADY, PRINCE, ARJUMAND, GIRL, MAN - various historical characters who appear only in movement sequences.
Available Material
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'I've dreamed you for so long, I can hardly believe you're with me now. Yet here you are: a tiny human voyager, sleeping off the shock of migration...'The legendary Taj Mahal is the next assignment for Rachel, an American travel writer whose failed romances have led her to ask: Why not have the baby she craves - on her own? She finds unexpected answers – and larger questions - among the glittering legacies of India's past. Alive with the sounds and colors of a remarkable country, this bittersweet comedy of mischievous matchmaking raises provocative questions about love, friendship, family, and what it means to be ready to be a parent.Baby Taj had developmental readings at Jeffrey Bihr Studio in Berkeley, California; The Lark Theatre in New York City; and TheatreWorks in Mountain View, California. |
$24.95 |
