Tamilian Growing Up Pangs on Stage

2 views
Skip to first unread message

Mumbai Theatre Guide

unread,
Oct 29, 2025, 6:44:26 AM (9 days ago) Oct 29
to curtain-c...@googlegroups.com

if you are unable to view the mail click here.

mumbaitheatreguide
mumbaitheatreguide mumbaitheatreguide mumbaitheatreguide mumbaitheatreguide mumbaitheatreguide

Wednesday, 29 October 2025

Dear Reader,

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

CALL FOR ENTRIES: KALA GHODA ARTS FESTIVAL 2026 - REGISTRATION FORM

mumbaitheatreguide

BOOKINGS NOW OPEN : EXCLUSIVE BLACK BOX THEATRE IN FOUR BUNGLOWS, ANDHERI WEST.

News

Upcoming Shows

Reviews

Reply all
Reply to author
Forward
0 new messages