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Leela
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Past Performances
Leela - An Indian Community Theatre & The City Theatre Austin are partnering to bring you a special fundraiser featuring a reading of "House of India by Deepak Kumar," a play about an immigrant woman's struggle to keep her family restaurant afloat amid financial and familial pressures. This heartwarming story delves into South Indian food, family, and home.
This project had two phases. From August 2023 to October 2023, Leela conducted three-story circles with seven to eight South Asian women who shared their experiences of workplace discrimination. A trained coach facilitated these story circles, designing a safe space for discussion.
This year, Leela actors showcased 7 actual (anonymized) stories in interactive theatre, with the audience participating in the narratives. The goal was to allow participants to experience the somatics of power so they could exercise it in the workplace to create meaningful change.
This project is partially or wholly funded by the City of Austin Economic Development Department's Elevate Grant and co-sponsored by Austin PBS.
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Reviews
" The writing of the play was original and thought provoking, and the actresses did a brilliant job overall. The play is intense, resonates with people post pandemic and is very timely and well thought out. The use of color, light, shadows and nuances helped to give the audience a sense of the intense feelings and emotions portrayed... Kudos to Sharanya, Lindsay and the wonderful troupe of Austin Leela! for a highly relatable piece of artistic presentation! The team worked hard on this!" - Suchitra Chander
"You guys put on an AMAZING show! I was entralled from the start. What a beautiful, thought-provoking, and skilled performance from your team. And kudos to Lindsay and Sharanya for the script! Totally worth traveling to Austin for this show. Five stars." - C.B.
"The Uninvited Guest was a well executed, thought provoking play! It was a good reminder that we blazed through the last 3 years of pandemic and pandemic-recovery without allowing ourselves to process our experiences and emotions. We all need to pause our hectic lifestyles and have a conversation with our emotionally-struggling inner selves to reconcile." - Arvind Raman
Passages of Love - An Evening of Poetry and Prose
FEBRUARY 12, 2013
An evening where participants shared their favorite passages from stories, poetry, plays (original or otherwise) which center on the theme of love.
Pants & Perceptions
APRIL 14, 2013
A double bill of two original plays, Pants and Brown Men Don't Swim.
