THEATRE "Class Of 84" An English Play about College Life at India Habitat Centre - 14th October, 2007

  • Time : 4:30 pm & 7:30 pm
  • Entry : Tickets at Rs. 300, Rs. 200, Rs. 100 and Rs. 50 available at the Programme desk from Oct 4h for IHC Members. Open to all Oct 7th onwards.
  • Duration : 90 mins
  • Event Info : A roller coaster ride about friendship, filled with pathos and mad humour.
  • CLASS OF ’84 is a roller coaster ride about friendship, filled with pathos and mad humor. Taking place in October 2002, the play is set in the Kashid beach home of Raveena and Sanjay Mehra, over one long and emotional evening. Seven friends, who were a tightly knit group, in St. Xavier’s College, from 1979 to 1984, have gathered in Bombay, because of the death of an eighth, Jojo. Jojo was the leader of the group. This was a group that hung around the Xavier’s canteen, discussing how to change the world, over endless cups of ‘chai’. The friends, have been invited to the Mehra home for dinner after the funeral. Apart from bored housewife, Raveena and her workaholic banker husband, Sanjay, there is Raghu, an angry, out of work filmmaker, Bobby, a TV serial actor, Cyrus, a rich hippie, Fuzzy, paranoid about her biological clock and obsessed with Feng Shui, and Sarah, a bitchy gossip columnist. These seven haven’t actually met as a group in seventeen years. Even individually the meetings have been sporadic. But the affection hasn’t died. The play starts off innocently enough, as Raveena, the play’s protagonist, introduces the audience briefly to each one of them. The first half of the play is gentle banter, and affectionate nostalgia. But lurking below the surface are old conflicts, unresolved issues, unconsummated romances and unhealed scars. As the evening wears on, the layers begin to gradually start peeling away. We realise that each person has been affected by Jojo in various ways. Also each person has some part of their personality, which they choose to hide. Can the seven friends renew old ties? Can they accept each others personality flaws? But most of all will old skeletons fall unwittingly out of the cupboard? All this is revealed as the seven friends seek to find out the real cause of their friend’s death, which they realise isn’t as clear cut as it first seemed.
  • Matters become even more complicated as a stranger, who calls himself Nikki appears at the doorstep, claiming to be Jojo’s ‘friend’. Their suspicion soon deepens as they realise he seems to know a lot about each of them. Who is Nikki? And Why has he come?
  • As the play draws to close will the seven friends come to terms with the death of their friend, but more importantly, themselves?
  • Writer & Director : Rahul Da Cunha
  • Cast : Rajit Kapur, Shernaz Patel, Devika Shahani, Zafar Karachiwala, Sohrab Ardeshir, Dipika Roy, Vikrant Chaturvedi, Rituuraj Singh.
THEATRE "Class Of 84" An English Play about College Life at India Habitat Centre - 14th October, 2007 THEATRE "Class Of 84" An English Play about College Life at India Habitat Centre - 14th October, 2007 Reviewed by rohit malik on Sunday, October 14, 2007 Rating: 5

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