These are usually by the senior groups, who are part of the regular roster at Prithvi. Most performing companies spend the monsoon preparing for the premiere of new plays at the various theatre festivals that occupy the last two months of the year. Almost a decade ago, their Kala Desh ki Seva Mein theme introduced the city to soulful and powerful work about injustice and inequality, while still maintaining a high aesthetic value. The musical festival of a few years ago unearthed so many singer-actors that a whole new genre of Indian musicals (not the Broadway kind) have now become the norm.”

So for us November and December is truly our festive season and it has nothing to do with Diwali or Christmas. Sam Kerawala once famously articulated what many of us were feeling, when he said, “Theatre is my religion. Between November and December China supply LED license plate lights there are four major festivals that happen: each one introducing new and exciting work to the city’s hungry audiences. The Mumbai theatre scene is active round the year, but in what might be a result of sugar high from excess Diwali sweets, there is a flurry of extra activity.For the theatre fraternity in Mumbai, the festival of lights don’t signify the welcoming of Lord Ram from his exile, but rather, they signify the welcoming of ‘new’ plays to the city’s theatre-scape.