April 28, 05: Bapsi Sidhwa's "Sock Em with Honey"
Bapsi Sidhwa on upcoming play "Sock’em With Honey" Directed by Rob Bundy at Stages Repertory Theatre. Actress Yaksha Bhatt in the play will join us.
ABOUT THE PLAY: SOCK Em WITH HONEY
Feroza is blissfully happy. She's in love and wants to marry her Jewish boyfriend, David. But her family in Lahore is dismayed - Feroza will be thrown out of the faith. They want her to settle down with a nice Zoroastrian boy. So, spurred on by the family grandmother, a forceful matriarch, Zareen is dispatched to Houston to rescue her daughter from the clutches of the undesirable suitor and win over her daughter with sweet words.
Meanwhile, Esther, David's grandmother, is equally agitated and attempts to dissuade David from marrying a scheming shiksa.
ABOUT BAPSI --- Distinguished international writer Bapsi Sidhwa has published four novels: An American Brat, Cracking India, The Bride and The Crow Eaters. She has been translated into several
European and Asian languages. Cracking India (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Quality Paperback Book Club selection), was made into the film Earth by Canadian director Deepa Mehta.
Among her many honors Sidhwa received the Bunting Fellowship at Radcliffe/Harvard, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award, the Sitara-i-Imtiaz, Pakistan's highest national honor
in the arts, and the LiBeraturepreis in Germany.
Sidhwa was on the advisory committee to Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Women's Development and has taught at Columbia U, University of Houston, Mount Holyoke College, and Brandeis.
Sidhwa’s play, Sock ‘em With Honey, based on An American Brat, opened at Leicester Haymarket and played in London in April 2003.
YAKSHA BHATT is a seasoned theater director and performer and has been involved in many South Asian
productions here in Houston and in India, in various capacities
