‘Project S.T.R.I.P.’ investigates the relationship between economic development and its impact on our planet

Director

Quasar Thakore Padamsee

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Project S.T.R.I.P.

’ is a comic satire about deranged corporations, mercenaries-for-hire, an armed man called Abu and people who just can’t seem to get out of the way. What started out as curiosity about the genocide of the aborigines in Australia led Quasar to investigate the complex relationship between economic development and the annihilation of entire communities and its impact on our planet.

The play starts off somewhere on a remote island in the Bay of Bengal – a piece of land and surrounding waters, rich in natural resources and home to an ancient peace-loving tribe. It moves on to what happens when this island is discovered, its people are civilised and their frogs, improved in a lab. Written by award-winning playwright Ram Ganesh Kamatham, it uses humour to present the bitter pill and speaks about deranged corporations run by interchangeable decision-makers.

From corporate politics to incompetent terrorists, from one-man morchas to a frog that mates with everything, the Kafka-esque world in the play has it all. The play stars Harssh Singh, Karan Makhija, Shruti Sridharan, Dilnaz Irani, Neil Bhoopalam and Abhishek Saha and will be staged at Prithvi Theatre on September 12 and 13.