Rehearsals
The 3 lead actors will rehearse the key scenes till 15th August.
Supporting roles are still open for pitching.
Staging of the play on 11th and 12th of September.
Supporting roles are still open for pitching.
Staging of the play on 11th and 12th of September.
AUDITIONS for CAST & CREW on 6th & 7th July
At Alliance Francaise,
Near Unicef and India International Center,
#72 Lodhi Road
On 6th and 7th.
From 10am to 5pm.
Also at Oxford Book Store next Saturday and Sunday (26th and 27th, June, this month).
It's in Statesman House, Barakamba Road connecting at CP.
But most importantly, please, please read the script.
It's here for downloading:
www.suBhakar.com/dad.html
Or ask Divya Thapar in Cultural Section at Alliance Francaise for a free hard copy.
Or Vijay Sharma or Prachi Bajpayee at Oxford Book Store.
For more info or help, call me on my Dilli number:
9911233940.
DOWNLOAD SCRIPT
www.subhakar.com/dad
Near Unicef and India International Center,
#72 Lodhi Road
On 6th and 7th.
From 10am to 5pm.
Also at Oxford Book Store next Saturday and Sunday (26th and 27th, June, this month).
It's in Statesman House, Barakamba Road connecting at CP.
But most importantly, please, please read the script.
It's here for downloading:
www.suBhakar.com/dad.html
Or ask Divya Thapar in Cultural Section at Alliance Francaise for a free hard copy.
Or Vijay Sharma or Prachi Bajpayee at Oxford Book Store.
For more info or help, call me on my Dilli number:
9911233940.
DOWNLOAD SCRIPT
www.subhakar.com/dad
Searching for SPONSORS
It's a 2-hour-long play with 34 scenes with 40 actors. We must find sponsors for the play, in cash or kind or courtesy or through advertising, or this will become a reading session at our street corner cafe over a one-by-two; you n me. I'm hunting. And I can use your help. Suggest.
Needed: A place for REHEARSALS
Any suggestions?
Any school or cheap auditorium or empty office floor, community hall, neglected house of a super rich, dilapidated building, out-of-business coffee shop, generous art gallery, rarely used indoor stadium, your backyard, their terrace...anything...
Any school or cheap auditorium or empty office floor, community hall, neglected house of a super rich, dilapidated building, out-of-business coffee shop, generous art gallery, rarely used indoor stadium, your backyard, their terrace...anything...
DOWNLOAD the script of the play: "Dad Says Make Love" for AUDITIONS
www.subhakar.com/dad
Or ask for a hardbound copy.
Or ask for a hardbound copy.
List of ACTORS needed:
MAIN ACTORS:
SON (25 YEARS/SHY/HELPLESS/HOPELESS/BROODING/RDB-Siddharth-ish)
ROSHNI (30 YEARS/FIREBRAND/FREE RADICAL)
DAD (40 YEARS/ATHLETIC/LIVELY/PASSIONATE/FREE AGENT)
SUPPORTING ACTORS:
DD (20-YEAR-OLD SWEET GIRL)
OLD PRODUCER (60 YEARS/KIND/FATHERLY)
MOM (35 YEARS / KIND / ELEGANT/ SUBTLE)
CAFE GIRL (25 YEARS/ANGELIC/EUROPEAN-ISH)
SALT AND PEPPER OLD MAN
BLACK SARI BENGALI (30 YEARS/FOXY/HYPOCRATIC)
CHIFFON GODDESS (30 YEARS/SEDUCTRESS/INNOCENT FACE)
FILM DIRECTOR (40 YEARS FAKE / PAWN-CHEWING STEREOTYPE)
ED HARDY PUNJABI YOUNG MAN (WELL-BUILT/PUB-REGULAR/HIDING STUPIDITY BEHIND A SILENT FACE)
BOOK-READING YOUNG COUPLE (INTO A 5-YEAR-OLD MARRIAGE)
SALT AND PEPPER OLD MAN'S WIFE
SMOKY EYES GIRL (LOLITA GOT 7 YEARS OLDER/VOICE REMAINED AT 13)
SMALL ROLES:
PLACARD BOY (6 years)
TEA BOY (child-labour days)
JOGGER PRIYA (20+ years/mind-your-business-type)
JOGGERS
HYPERACTIVE TV REPORTER (Female/Farm-Fresh Mass-Com)
SEA OF STUDENTS (30 male and female)
EDUCATION MINISTER (Give me Girish Karnad/Kidding/Any guy like him)
CRPF JAWANS (20) (All male)
DELHI POLICE (10 male/ 8 female)
TV CREW (5 TEAMS OF 3 EACH/male and female)
SURGEON (30 YEARS/MALE/INTELLIGENT
GRAND SON (6 years)
COLLEGE GUY WITH COMIC BOOK
POLICE CONSTABLE (40 years/beer belly/Bombay-talk)
DAY-2 YOUNG CANDLE LIGHT COUPLE
RANG DE BASANTI GANG:
AAMIR KHAN LOOK-ALIKE
KUNAL KAPOOR LOOK-ALIKE
SHARMAN JOSHI LOOK-ALIKE
ATUL KULKARNI LOOK-ALIKE
SIDDHARTH LOOK-ALIKE
BRITSH 'SUE'-KAR-MERE-MAN-KO GIRL
CPI ACTIVIST Young Woman
HOSTEL CORRIDOR CROWD: (4 MALE)
DAY-3 CAFE CUSTOMERS (JR.COLLEGE GUYS-2)
For FILM CREW SCENE:
FILM HERO
ASSISTANT DIRECTORS (3)
CAMERAMAN (1)
ASSISTANT CAMERAMEN (3)
LIGHT BOYS (3)
GRIP MEN (3)
SOUND (2)
SPOT BOY (1)
SCRIPT GIRL (1)
SET VISITORS (3 MALE/1 FEMALE)
PORTERS (3 MALE)
PASSENGERS (A COMPARTMENT-FULL AND DIVERSE)
RESTAURANT STEWARD (THIN & TALL/COMICAL)
WAITERS (3 MALE/1 FEMALE/ALL INDIFFERENT)
BIG PARSI FAMILY
(8 ADULTS, 6 KIDS: GRAND PA, GRAND MA,
POP, MOM, UNCLE , AUNT, UNCLE-2, AUNT-2,
BIG COUSINS MALE AND FEMALE,
3 BOYS, 2 GIRLS, 1 BABY GIRL)
YOUNG MIZORAM COUPLE who can dance to a waltz
PAWN SHOP GUY
MORNING CROWD (VEGETABLE GUY, PAPER BOY, MORNING WALKERS)
SCHOOL KID (SCHOOL-HATING/WELL-CRYING)
SCHOOL KID'S MOM (ALL-KNOWING)
A BLACK JACK AKELA WITHOUT A DIALOGUE (ANY BLACK JACK AKELA)
SCHOOL KIDS DELINQUENTS (6 BOYS, 8 GIRLS/INEXPENSIVE CLOTHES/BRIGHT EYES)
PARTYING GIRLS (6/UNDER-AGE BORDERING ON AGE FOR TEQUILAS)
JOGGERS (3 MALE, 4 FEMALE)
SON (25 YEARS/SHY/HELPLESS/HOPELESS/BROODING/RDB-Siddharth-ish)
ROSHNI (30 YEARS/FIREBRAND/FREE RADICAL)
DAD (40 YEARS/ATHLETIC/LIVELY/PASSIONATE/FREE AGENT)
SUPPORTING ACTORS:
DD (20-YEAR-OLD SWEET GIRL)
OLD PRODUCER (60 YEARS/KIND/FATHERLY)
MOM (35 YEARS / KIND / ELEGANT/ SUBTLE)
CAFE GIRL (25 YEARS/ANGELIC/EUROPEAN-ISH)
SALT AND PEPPER OLD MAN
BLACK SARI BENGALI (30 YEARS/FOXY/HYPOCRATIC)
CHIFFON GODDESS (30 YEARS/SEDUCTRESS/INNOCENT FACE)
FILM DIRECTOR (40 YEARS FAKE / PAWN-CHEWING STEREOTYPE)
ED HARDY PUNJABI YOUNG MAN (WELL-BUILT/PUB-REGULAR/HIDING STUPIDITY BEHIND A SILENT FACE)
BOOK-READING YOUNG COUPLE (INTO A 5-YEAR-OLD MARRIAGE)
SALT AND PEPPER OLD MAN'S WIFE
SMOKY EYES GIRL (LOLITA GOT 7 YEARS OLDER/VOICE REMAINED AT 13)
SMALL ROLES:
PLACARD BOY (6 years)
TEA BOY (child-labour days)
JOGGER PRIYA (20+ years/mind-your-business-type)
JOGGERS
HYPERACTIVE TV REPORTER (Female/Farm-Fresh Mass-Com)
SEA OF STUDENTS (30 male and female)
EDUCATION MINISTER (Give me Girish Karnad/Kidding/Any guy like him)
CRPF JAWANS (20) (All male)
DELHI POLICE (10 male/ 8 female)
TV CREW (5 TEAMS OF 3 EACH/male and female)
SURGEON (30 YEARS/MALE/INTELLIGENT
GRAND SON (6 years)
COLLEGE GUY WITH COMIC BOOK
POLICE CONSTABLE (40 years/beer belly/Bombay-talk)
DAY-2 YOUNG CANDLE LIGHT COUPLE
RANG DE BASANTI GANG:
AAMIR KHAN LOOK-ALIKE
KUNAL KAPOOR LOOK-ALIKE
SHARMAN JOSHI LOOK-ALIKE
ATUL KULKARNI LOOK-ALIKE
SIDDHARTH LOOK-ALIKE
BRITSH 'SUE'-KAR-MERE-MAN-KO GIRL
CPI ACTIVIST Young Woman
HOSTEL CORRIDOR CROWD: (4 MALE)
DAY-3 CAFE CUSTOMERS (JR.COLLEGE GUYS-2)
For FILM CREW SCENE:
FILM HERO
ASSISTANT DIRECTORS (3)
CAMERAMAN (1)
ASSISTANT CAMERAMEN (3)
LIGHT BOYS (3)
GRIP MEN (3)
SOUND (2)
SPOT BOY (1)
SCRIPT GIRL (1)
SET VISITORS (3 MALE/1 FEMALE)
PORTERS (3 MALE)
PASSENGERS (A COMPARTMENT-FULL AND DIVERSE)
RESTAURANT STEWARD (THIN & TALL/COMICAL)
WAITERS (3 MALE/1 FEMALE/ALL INDIFFERENT)
BIG PARSI FAMILY
(8 ADULTS, 6 KIDS: GRAND PA, GRAND MA,
POP, MOM, UNCLE , AUNT, UNCLE-2, AUNT-2,
BIG COUSINS MALE AND FEMALE,
3 BOYS, 2 GIRLS, 1 BABY GIRL)
YOUNG MIZORAM COUPLE who can dance to a waltz
PAWN SHOP GUY
MORNING CROWD (VEGETABLE GUY, PAPER BOY, MORNING WALKERS)
SCHOOL KID (SCHOOL-HATING/WELL-CRYING)
SCHOOL KID'S MOM (ALL-KNOWING)
A BLACK JACK AKELA WITHOUT A DIALOGUE (ANY BLACK JACK AKELA)
SCHOOL KIDS DELINQUENTS (6 BOYS, 8 GIRLS/INEXPENSIVE CLOTHES/BRIGHT EYES)
PARTYING GIRLS (6/UNDER-AGE BORDERING ON AGE FOR TEQUILAS)
JOGGERS (3 MALE, 4 FEMALE)
"DAD SAYS MAKE LOVE" - my new play.
A father and a son. A sunset and a sunrise. And the years in between. And a few candles at India Gate. And a passing-breeze-like girl passing like a breeze between them and around India Gate.
“Dad Says Make Love,” a 2-hour-long comedy and social satire that explores the lives of its three highly libertarian protagonists while giving us a chance to observe the smartass ways of Destiny as it brings people together and separates them at its will but only to make the whole journey a meaningful whole where nothing ever happens without a reason. Like Richard Bach says, “Here is a test to find if your mission on Earth is finished: if you are alive, it isn’t.”
Download the complete script at www.subhakar.com/dad.html
“Dad Says Make Love,” a 2-hour-long comedy and social satire that explores the lives of its three highly libertarian protagonists while giving us a chance to observe the smartass ways of Destiny as it brings people together and separates them at its will but only to make the whole journey a meaningful whole where nothing ever happens without a reason. Like Richard Bach says, “Here is a test to find if your mission on Earth is finished: if you are alive, it isn’t.”
Download the complete script at www.subhakar.com/dad.html
Huh?! Dad says make love?!!
"Dad Says Make Love" is a horrible horrible title considering the misleading times we are living in. But if you ignore that part, I believe you will be able to see how superbly this title brings out the essence of the play. Go make love. Go live life to the fullest. On your terms. For what you believe in. Everything else can wait. Holding candles at India Gate, especially. So, I am willing to lose the readers and audience who might not touch this play on having been mislead by the title than change it to a less riskier "Father, Son and the Holy Ghost" or "I Love You, Dad!" or "You Rock, Dad!!!!" So, let's stop debating and accept the innocently straight title as it is and leave those who can be mislead to themselves. They are the same people who change the channel when someone starts singing Beatles' "All You Need is Love" :) Mush me, any day. :)
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