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August 13, 2004

'Fatwa' in ManhattanTheater

Anuvab Pal, one of my most favorite playwrights, is unleashing a new play upon the world at the NYC Fringe Festival tomorrow. The Fatwa synopsis:

A comedy about two elderly men who try to take advantage of the current American political climate to fulfill lifelong artistic desires. Both men have famous names, but are not famous themselves. They are failed writers who in attempting to promote a blasphemous novel, attempt to engineer a fatwa...

More here:

Pal compares favorably to Salman Rushdie in verbal pyrotechnics and Tom Stoppard in barbed wit, and he's starting to get mainstream recognition... like Woody Allen minus the neuroticism... Fatwa is a thinly disguised satire of Rushdie's horrific hide-and-seek with the mullahs.

Pal's work is a treat, go see the play!

Fatwa by Anuvab Pal, NYC Fringe Festival, Players Theater, Studio 3C, 115 MacDougal St, New York, NY, Aug. 14-15, 20-22, 25, 26, tickets at TicketWeb

manish on August 13, 2004 12:54 PM in Theater · T·r·a·c·k·b·a·c·k address · Direct link · Email post


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