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The Golden Dragon, Germany’s most successful new play, is the second in the six-play Jagriti (A theatre space in Bangalore)  Season that started in December and runs through to June 2012. The prolific German playwright, Roland Schimmelpfennig and his English translator, David Tushingham, have come up with another stage success that won the Olivier Award for the Actors Touring Company at the Edinburgh Festival in August 2011.

The Golden Dragon is a tragicomic tale of globalization, set in your local Thai/Chinese/Vietnamese takeaway.

The Herald, Scotland calls it, “A glorious interconnectedness of life’s rich tapestry and instant karma that gives genuine food for thought, which travels everywhere and nowhere in a deconstructed soap opera about modern migration.’

Through fun moments, this theatrical fable deals with larger socio-economic issues of modern life and migration, whisking you from your local takeaway to East Asia and back, revealing what really goes into that bowl of spicy soup.

Arundhati Raja, Artistic Director at Jagriti says she saw the play at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last year and felt that it was amazing to see “five actors playing a variety of characters (gender, age and race notwithstanding) with such facility that you as an audience member will be compelled to laugh, to cry and to think.”

Jagdish Raja, Development Director, is more excited by the collaborative nature of the performance. “Think about it”, he says. “A German playwright, a British translator and a British troupe performing a play set in a Thai restaurant, in Bangalore! What’s more, the tour is supported by The British Council and the Goethe Institut, making this production at Jagriti a true collaboration – artistically, economically and socially.”

Says director Ramin Gray of the company’s shows at Jagriti in Bangalore, “Like looking down a telescope from the wrong end, I hope you will get a new, strange and wonderful perspective on how you see us Europeans looking out at the world.”

‘An intelligent play, brilliantly written with an excellent balance of comedy and tragedy in which the riveting acting never fails to keep the audience captivated,’  exults the Broadway Baby

Lyn Gardner, The Guardian, says, ‘The beauty of the piece, and Ramin Gray’s production, is that it reveals itself quietly and gradually.’  

Performed by the award winning ATC, London.

Presented by Jagriti and The British Council and supported by The Goethe Institut.

Cast: David Beames, Adam Best, Ann Firbank, Kathryn O’Reilly, Jack Tarlton.

Director: Ramin Gray

All photographs taken by Stephen Cummiskey

Tickets: Rs 300. Available on www.bookmyshow.com

Show Timings: Thursday to Saturday – 8pm, Sunday – 3pm and 6.30pm. No performance on Mondays.

For details/tickets call 080-41242879.

For details on shows for Colleges/High schools (On Tuesdays and Wednesdays), contact Vivek 0n 98453 73547

Not suitable for children under 16 years of age.