Guru of Chai
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| Venue | Edison Theatre, St Louis, Missouri, United States of America | ||||||||||||||||
| First Date | 4 November 2011 | ||||||||||||||||
| Last Date | 5 November 2011 | ||||||||||||||||
| Dates Estimated | No | ||||||||||||||||
| Status | Professional | ||||||||||||||||
| World Premiere | No | ||||||||||||||||
| Part of a Tour | Yes | ||||||||||||||||
| Description | From gleaming skyscrapers to humble market stalls, modern India is a world of crowded contradiction, a world of iPhones and ancient gods, of rickshaws and SUVs, of causal corruption and slumdog millionaires.
In The Guru of Chai, Jacob Rajan, co-founder of New Zealand’s India Ink Theatre Company, gives voice to the world’s largest democracy through a series of indelible characters — the mercurial chaiwallah (tea seller), the lovelorn policeman, the protection racketeers, the abandoned girl whose singing stops crowds in their tracks. Rajan presents this intimate epic of a one-man-show as part of the Edison Ovations Series at Washington University in St. Louis. |
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| Description Source | Website | ||||||||||||||||
| Primary Genre | Theatre - Spoken Word | ||||||||||||||||
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Solo
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| Subjects |
India
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| Text Nationality | New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||
| Production Nationality | New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||
| Further Information | USA Tour | ||||||||||||||||
| Event Status | Completed | ||||||||||||||||
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| Data Set | Theatre Aotearoa | ||||||||||||||||
| Event Identifier | 211538 | ||||||||||||||||
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