Tamilian Growing Up Pangs on Stage
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Oct 29, 2025, 6:44:26 AM (9 days ago) Oct 29
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Wednesday, 29 October 2025
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Tamilian Growing Up Pangs on Stage
A new play called PERIOD PARRRTY is getting attention waves on the London theatre scene.
Anya Ryan writes in her review in The Guardian, "In many ways, PERIOD PARRRTY is your classic coming-of-age story – full of teenage angst, fumbling romances, and dreams of older,freer years. But Gayathiri Kamalakanthan's debut play is also a bold study of Tamil history and identity. Set in 2010 and using the celebratory ritual that follows a teenager's first period as a catalyst, it focuses on the thoughts and feelings of Krish, a 15-year-old who has not yet told their family they are non-binary."
Ryan does point out flaws in the play's structure, but also finds it "deeply endearing," and Gitika Buttoo's direction "inspired."
She comments, "It's very funny, too – Kamalakanthan is a master of writing adolescent turmoil, and the generational misunderstandings between Krish and their mother, Brintha, stretch out into chasms. Moving between languages, their conversations play out in the sound of an authentic British Tamil home."
Full marks for originality, and definitely for breaking the mould of Bollywood-Punjabi content that seems to define the Indian lifestyle abroad.
Tamilian Growing Up Pangs on Stage
A new play called PERIOD PARRRTY is getting attention waves on the London theatre scene.
Anya Ryan writes in her review in The Guardian, "In many ways, PERIOD PARRRTY is your classic coming-of-age story – full of teenage angst, fumbling romances, and dreams of older,freer years. But Gayathiri Kamalakanthan's debut play is also a bold study of Tamil history and identity. Set in 2010 and using the celebratory ritual that follows a teenager's first period as a catalyst, it focuses on the thoughts and feelings of Krish, a 15-year-old who has not yet told their family they are non-binary."
Ryan does point out flaws in the play's structure, but also finds it "deeply endearing," and Gitika Buttoo's direction "inspired."
She comments, "It's very funny, too – Kamalakanthan is a master of writing adolescent turmoil, and the generational misunderstandings between Krish and their mother, Brintha, stretch out into chasms. Moving between languages, their conversations play out in the sound of an authentic British Tamil home."
Full marks for originality, and definitely for breaking the mould of Bollywood-Punjabi content that seems to define the Indian lifestyle abroad.
"A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute."
Terence Rattigan
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