PIERROT’S TROUPE Presents
 A Private Affair- (Hindi Comedy)
Story: Charles Emery 
Script and Direction: Dr. M. SAYEED ALAM
 7:00pm
ALLIANCE FRANCAISE , 72 Lodhi Estate, Near IIC , New Delhi

Geeta Thadani, a psychiatrist, arrives in Delhi with her secretary (read ‘psychiatry’) Anil to deliver a lecture on split personality. Next day, she forgets to move out and stays on in the bedroom of a suite of a five-star hotel. Anil, who was stitching her torn skirt in the drawing room, goes into the bedroom with Geeta. Soon after one Captain Mehta arrives. When he enters the room he sees the skirt and calls the reception to get it picked up. He moves to the second bedroom to freshen up. Meanwhile, Anil enters and takes the skirt with him to the first bedroom. When the waiter arrives he does not obviously find the skirt. He dismisses the entire episode as just a hallucination the Captain might have had.

But there are other problems that soon crop up. Geeta orders food for two persons and it is a bewildered Captain who answers the waiter. The waiter is now sure that the Captain is either drunk or has a woman with him in the bedroom. The situation gets more complicated as another Character, Abu Salem looking Bhai, adds to the confusion. The Bhai has come to meet the psychiatrist, but the Captain sends him away saying that he has come to a wrong place. Geeta, who had been expecting the Bhai, finds only the Captain in the room and takes him as the Bhai, while the Captain thinks that Geeta and her secretary are crooks out to rob him. Geeta, concerned about the gravity of her patient’s condition, begins Captain’s treatment.  

Watch the play to find out if the cure drives the Captain mad or does he drive Geeta and her secretary away first?

Remarks

 
The Hindustan Times: Alam leaves the audience laughing all the way.              
The Hindu:The script is full of hilarious situations and lines.                              
The Statesman: Pierrot’s Troupe and its director M. Sayeed Alam have a realistic approach to theatre.  So was the case with A Private Affair, too.       The Hindustan Times: A play enlivened by many hilarious situations and witty lines

Tickets: Rs. 500/-, Rs 300/- & Rs. 200/-  available at ALLIANCE FRANCAISE  from June 30 (11am to 6pm) and on the show day. For details, Tele Booking, Bulk Booking Contact: 9810255291, 9810460366 29944635, 40506826, pierrotstroupe@yahoo.com and/or www.bookmyshow.com and 39895050