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Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo spent three years in Annawadi India, recording the lives of its residents. From her uncompromising book (Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity), winner of the National Book Award for Non-Fiction 2012, David Hare has fashioned a tumultuous play on an epic scale.
India is surging with global ambition. But beyond the luxury hotels surrounding Mumbai airport lies a makeshift slum, full of people with plans of their own. Zehrunisa and her son Abdul aim to recycle enough rubbish to fund a proper house. Sunil, twelve and stunted, wants to eat until he's as tall as Kalu the thief. Asha seeks to steal government anti-poverty funds to turn herself into a 'first-class person', while her daughter Manju intends to become the slum's first female graduate.
But their schemes are fragile; global recession threatens the garbage trade, and another slum-dweller is about to make an accusation that will destroy herself and shatter the neighborhood.
'A triumph for David Hare and Meera Syal' Guardian
'David Hare's adaptation of Katharine Boo's acclaimed study of a Mumbai slum breaks new ground for the National' Observer
'Compelling. Unforgettably communications a world in which life is cheap. Daily Telegraph
'Magnificent. Rufus Norris's production has a humane, dignified sweep that captivates' Independent
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300 Summit Street
Hartford, CT 06106
United States
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