Three’s a Crowd

Three’s a Crowd was spawned by time constraints. Doing a full-length play is the most attractive opportunity available to directors, but also a most painstaking and lengthy process. Lack of time brought about the suggestion of short plays. Soon enough the project took on a life of its own and became a new kind of attractive opportunity. Not wanting to restrict a series of short plays thematically, the commonality was brought about by restricting the size of the cast. Three actors. Not more. Not less. The idea being to see the variety of stories that could be told using only three characters each.

What we got were

Posthumously… by Anisha Sridhar
Directed by Karan Makhija
An adoring bimbette, a cynical yuppie, and a pseudo-psychic argue about whether a man almost was.
Cast: Ruchi Doshi, Arghya Lahiri, and Puja Sarup

The Fitting Room by Susan Cinoman
Directed by Rohit Bagai with Shailja Mehta and Shanaya Rafaat
Two female friends of long standing scrap, nit-pick and sob their way through the vital issues of love, marriage, clothes and cooking.
Cast: Shailja Mehta, Shanaya Rafaat and Pravir Sethi

The Sound of Two Guys Talking by David Eddy
Directed by Akarsh Khurana
Two regular guys. One hell of an irregular coffee break conversation.
Cast: Apoorva Kale, Akarsh Khurana, and Shaun Williams

Three Characters Sitting in a Urinal by Nitin Batra
Directed by Quasar Thakore Padamsee
Three characters sitting in a urinal. Two have eyes. One is blind. Fuck! I can’t think of anything to write!
Cast: Rohit Bagai, Kunaal Roy Kapur, and Quasar Thakore Padamsee