09/11/2010
THIRST
by Network Playwright ANITA CHANDWANEY and Resident Playwright M.E.H. LEWIS
Directed by: Lavina Jadhwani
What happens when a rural Dalit (untouchable) community’s quest for water and dignity challenges age-old traditions of the caste system in the drought-devastated Bundelkhand region of India? As an intrepid young journalist investigates the government corruption that delays the building of a desperately needed dam, she encounters the mystery of a missing bride and a gang of pink-clad women vigilantes.
ANITA CHANDWANEY’s “Gandhi Marg” won 2nd Place in Writers Digest’s 75th Annual Stage Play Competition and was a finalist in Chicago Dramatists’ Many Voices Project. Her monologues have been produced by Rasaka Theatre in its “Yoni ki Baat” in 2009 and 2010.
M.E.H. LEWIS is a two-time Illinois Arts Council Fellow and a winner of the Julie Harris Playwriting Award, the Jeff Award, the Dayton Playhouse Outstanding Playwright Award, among others. She is the author of “Here Where It's Safe,” “Creole,” “Fellow Travellers” and “Burying the Bones.”
