Hypokrit Theatre Company Sets 2016 Season

Hypokrit Theatre Company is pleased to announce their 2016 season. The exciting line-up has already begun with Zenobia Shroff and Arpita Mukherje's How to Succeed as an Ethnically Ambigous Actor, currently playing at the Paradise Factory through July 9th as part of the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity.

The season will be announced at a special Launch Party on Thursday, June 30th at 8pm at the posh DL Rooftop (95 Delancey St, New York, NY 10002). Press cordially invited.

Hypokrit Theatre Company launched in the Spring of 2015 with a sold-out Bollywood inspired adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, and continues this season creating a platform for new, exciting and groundbreaking multicultural theatre.

"Our 2016 season addresses the most pressing issues facing contemporary world." --shares co-founder and artistic director Arpita Mukherje-- "At a time when there is real danger of the world turning inward, Hypokrit Theatre Company aims to bring different perspectives to the New York theatre community. In the age of globalization, Hypokrit's work this year reminds us that no matter what language we speak and where we come from, we share a common humanity."

The full line-up includes a solo musical at the New York Musical Festival, Eh Dah? Questions for my Father (July 19-28 at the June Havoc Theatre); a festival of South Asian Performing Arts, Tamasha (Sept 26 - Oct 2 at the Paradise Factory); and two mainstage Bengali Classics Re-Imagined running in repertory (Nov 3-20 at Theater for the New City). More information forthcoming.

THE SEASON:

HOW TO SUCCEED AS AN ETHNICALLY AMBIGOUS ACTOR
Written by Zenobia Shroff and Arpita Mukherje; Directed by Arpita Mukherje

Starring Zenobia Shroff

Remaining performances: Thu, July 7 at 9:15 pm, Fri, July 8 at 7:00 pm, and Sat, July 9 at 12:25 pm

Paradise Factory (part of Planet Connections Theatre Festivity), 64 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003

Tickets: $18.00; www.hypokritnyc.org/how-to-succeed-as-an-ambiguous-actor-pctf-2016

"What kinda name is that?" Zenobia has been battling this question and other micro aggressions for the three decades she's been an actor in New York City. Now she's wondering - leaving her family behind in India, giving up any chance of a normal personal life, and enduring audition after audition where no one could tell "what she is" - was it all worth it?

EH DAH? QUESTIONS FOR MY FATHER

Book, music and lyrics by Aya Aziz

Directed by Corinne Proctor

Starring Aya Aziz

Performances are Tue, July 19th at 8:00 pm, Wed, July 20th at 1:00 pm, Sat, July 23rd at 9:00 pm, Sun, July 24th at 9:00 pm, and Thu, July 28th at 9:00 pm.

June Havoc Theatre (part of the New York Musical Festival), 312 W 36th Suite 1, NY, NY 10018

Tickets: $29.50 (includes $2.00 facility fee); www.nymf.org/ehdah

"Ghetto-Hippie-Arab-Commie-China Doll" Aya was shaped by the eclectic community of New York City. But Aya's father, an Egyptian-American world-traveler, remained a mystery, as did her Muslim family. In this solo musical, Aya enacts the world she came from and the family she went in search of. With a range of accents, voices, and zany characters, Aya's story deals with contemporary conflicts - identity, the culture war, Islamophobia, all while asking Eh Dah - what is this?!

TAMASHA - FESTIVAL OF SOUTH ASIAN PERFORMING ARTS

Presented in association with The James Jay Dudley Luce Foundation

Sept 26 - Oct 2, 2016

For more information visit www.tamashanyc.org

Tamasha, a Festival for South Asian Performing Arts, is the annual celebration of the diverse perspectives, ideas, and imaginations of artists from the South Asian subcontinent and/or who belong to the South Asian diaspora. Tamasha was created by Arpita Mukherjee, Shubhra Prakash (both former chairs of the South Asian International Performing Arts Festival), and Nikita Chaudhry to provide opportunities for up-and-coming artists of South Asian origin to connect and collaborate.

BENGALI CLASSICS RE-IMAGINED
Nov 3 - 20, 2016

Devdas

In collaboration with Junoon Performing Arts

Chorographed by Swarali Karulkar (Dance India Dance Finalist)

Set in India's hyper-competitive reality dance competition, the ballet tells the story of Paro and Chanda, the top contestants, who covet both, the title and the man - Dev.

Chokher Bali

Adapted by Partha Chatterjee (Columbia University, renowned international scholar)

Re-imagined as a Greek tragedy, the play explores the life of Binodini, a widow in early 20th century Bengal, who finds herself entangled in a forbidden love triangle.

For more information visit www.hypokritnyc.org/bengali-classics-re-imagined-november-2016