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Anusree Roy

Anusree Roy

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ebook cover of Little Pretty and The Exceptional, by Anusree Roy
Playwrights Canada Press | 17 February 2025

This play was informed by Anusree's own experiences with PTSD and mental health.Anusree loves orange popsicles and Korean romance dramas.Little Pretty and The Exceptional was first produced by Factory Theatre, Toronto, from April 1 to 30, 2017.

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ebook cover of Sultans of the Street, by Anusree Roy
Playwrights Canada Press | 14 April 2016

When young orphans Mala and Chun Chun encounter brothers Prakash and Ojha on the busy streets of Kolkata, they are immediately at odds. The brothers come from a lower-middle-class family and spend their time flying kites instead of attending class, while Mala and Chun Chun can only dream of going to school, a goal Aunty promises will be fulfilled if they beg for money from passersby. After a petty fruit-stall heist lands Ojha in Aunty's cunning hands, the brothers are blackmailed into begging alongside Mala and Chun Chun, forcing the children to interact. Though they find each other nuisances at first, the kids soon realize their strength in numbers as Aunty's scheming is slowly revealed.

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ebook cover of Brothel #9, by Anusree Roy
Playwrights Canada Press | 30 April 2012

A deal has been struck between two men in India-twenty-one hundred rupees in exchange for a young village woman named Rekha. Sent to Calcutta without knowing why, Rekha finds herself in the confines of a brothel with Jamuna, a prostitute and madam, who is resigned to her trade. In these conditions, Rekha must shape her destiny and find inner liberty.

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ebook cover of Pyaasa & Letters to My Grandma, by Anusree Roy
Playwrights Canada Press | 29 April 2010

Set in Calcutta, Pyaasa tells the story of Chaya, an eleven-year-old untouchable who dreams of nothing more than learning her times tables. When Chaya's mother begs a woman from a higher caste to give Chaya a job at a local tea stall, Chaya's journey from childhood to adulthood begins and ends over ten days. A moving and heartfelt play, Pyaasa illustrates with subtlety and nuanced truth the inequalities and injustices that persist through the Indian caste system. In the haunting Letters to My Grandma, Malobee unearths letters detailing her grandmother's fight to survive the 1947 partition of India, which resonates with Malobee's own struggles to create a new life in present-day Toronto. A grand multi-generational tale of hatred, regret, love, and forgiveness, Letters to my Grandma weaves the remarkable stories of these two women together, inextricably linking their histories and delving into how the hatred bred between Hindus and Muslims in the Old World consumes families in Canada today.

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