Is There Even Porn in India?

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Welcome to LAByrinth’s 22nd annual Barn Series! The renowned free reading series is a festival of new plays, and a critical and exciting step in LAB’s development of new work.  Many of LAByrinth’s world premieres have come from the Barn, giving audiences a sneak peak into the artistic process, and a chance to see plays before they’re the next hot ticket.  

This reading series will be performed in-person. 

Is There Even Porn in India? 
Written by Dipti Bramhandkar
Created by Dipti Bramhandkar, Dan Milne & Jane Nash
Saturday, April 9th at 7pm
 
Over twelve intense and intimate hours, two couples grapple with the reverberations of a single question asked by one to the other at an after party of a film pitch to investors. Indie filmmaker, Charlie, and her editor husband, Peter, retreat to their Gowanus apartment trying to predict the outcome of the evening. Meanwhile in Tribeca, first time producer, Sanjay, and his art dealer wife, Asha, discuss the event from their perspective. The question winds its way through each individual’s sense of self, their world views, and ultimately, their relationships, putting everything at risk.

Dipti Bramhandkar is an Indian-American writer exploring the space between prose and dramatic writing through the lens of the immigrant experience. The last two years have been exceptionally busy: her solo show American Rookie was produced by Luna Stage and had a sold-out, extended run. Her play Islands of Contentment was in Labyrinth Theater Company’s Barn Series and then produced by Hypokrit Productions and The Tank (featuring Daphne Rubin-Vega, Laura Gómez, Danny Pudi and more.) She was the playwright in residence at Guild Hall, which also commissioned a pandemic-inspired story collection, A Land Without Weather. She wrote twenty audio stories during the pandemic which were featured on WNYC. Juggerknot Theater Company commissioned an interactive solo play, Mrs. Asha, nominated for best performance.  24HourPlays invited her to contribute a monologue, How to Beat a Curse. Compass Needle Theater commissioned two radio plays to be released on the Broadway Podcast Network: Learning to Swim and Kishori’s Canteen. Her musical play, Where Are You Going Alone, Little Girl? was produced in Mumbai, India in December 2021. She received her B.A. from Cornell University and M.A. from Cambridge University (both in English literature.) She 'daylights' as the Head of Strategy, North America for Iris Worldwide.

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