Exit-stance
The India Foundation
The play is a one-man tour de force of anger and frustration relieved by passages of poetic beauty.
SHOW DESCRIPTION
Exit-stance is a story of an Indian immigrant who is in his 90s and living in a nursing home in this country. He has not visited India in some six-decades. He rambles on about his living in a nursing home, life, death, identity, loneliness, his many phobias and pet peeves. “A dark... comedy of existential angst about a crude, foulmouthed and frustrated curmudgeon. Profane, profound, poetic, humorous and heartbreaking and most importantly provocative!” Exit-stance is a remarkable play about aging. An old man, called only OM, born in India, who has lived most of his life in the US, now spends his final days in a nursing home that provides him with assisted living that dehumanizes him as it prolongs his life. Important is OM's universality, as his name suggests. His sense of rootlessness...his loneliness relieved only by a few memories and snippets of poetry recalled from the classical literature of his youth places OM in one of the grand traditions of literature represented best by Beckett.
ARTIST/COMPANY BIOGRAPHY
The India Foundation, Dayton, Ohio is a not for profit organization and is incorporated in the State of Ohio since 1986. Over the years it has produced and or presented many plays in English language as well as in Marathi, Hindi and Gujarati languages of India. Ghashiram Kotwal, a historical Marathi language musical and considered to be the play best play from India in the last six-decades was presented in Dayton with its original cast with scene synopsis in English. A sold out audience, mostly of non-Indian audience, enjoyed it. They enjoyed the play while checking out the English- language synopsis provided by the India Foundation. The India Foundation has produced Pirandello’s Six Characters In Search of An Author in its Hindi version, as well as such note worthy locally produced plays as Narmad: My Life, Mark Twain In India, An Evening with Mary Carpenter and Exit-stance.
PREVIOUS FRINGES
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'AND THE FRINGIEST PART IS ...'
The writer/director/producer believes that the immigrant experience, quest for identity in a new culture, old age, aging, loneliness and quest for the answer to the eternal questions about Life and Death have been woven through the play in a way that has not been attempted before in a play.
reviews
+ CityBeat review (May 31, 2008)