Genesis Foundation staged the English play Love on the Brink, directed by Lillete Dubey, as a fundraiser. The play premiered at Epicentre, Apparel House, Gurgaon on Sunday August 22, 2010. The event helped raise funds for 3 critically ill children suffering from cardiac disorders and thalassemia. These children come from orphanages and under privileged homes where the family income is under Rs.5,000. For details of the children who will benefit from this support click here.
“Love on the Brink “
An absurdly comic tale about love and the pursuit of happiness Produced and Directed by Lillete Dubey
Adapted by Sandhya Divecha (Based on the Tony Award Winning Broadway hit ‘Luv’ by Murray Schisgal)
Cast : Joy Sengupta, Kumud Mishra and Shivani Tanksale
Synopsis :
‘ Love on the Brink ‘ is a wickedly satirical and brilliantly comic story about three people who meet unexpectedly one dark night at the edge of the sea front.
Sudipto Bandhopadhya ( Bandy), an existentialist intellectual who has sunk so low that honest existentialists would disown him. He has no future except to jump off into the sea and is about to do so, when Pankaj Chopra ( Chops) comes along and intervenes. Chops and Bandy turn out to be college classmates. Bandy, in his rags, reveals the depth of his despair, Chops a picture of prosperity, is all sympathy and then confesses that he too is full of frustration, because his wife won’t divorce him so he can marry the woman he loves.
Into this, Chops’ wife Amu appears, a beautiful and highly overeducated woman, and a triangle of the absurd ensues, that in the tradition of all great comedy revels in alienation, the loss of identity, inability to communicate, self expression and the meaninglessness of it all. And the more their woes increase, the more we laugh, as we recognize our own lives in their incisively observed and wildly funny misadventures, as they struggle to understand life, love, success and the pursuit of happiness.
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