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The Mirror has Two Hands

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Would you give your right hand to be famous? And if you did, would life let you get away with it?  The Mirror has Two Hands is the story of Jack, a bar guitarist, who did just that... and about how life matched his contribution - one for one!

The History of the Play
‘The Mirror has Two Hands’ is written by Mohit Sindhwani.  It has taken nearly 22 months to perfect the script, and Precocious Puppets will produce the world premiere.

Synopsis

The Mirror has Two Hands asks the delicate question whether conventional talent is good enough to be successful in today’s world.  The protagonist of the play, Jack, is a talented guitarist who performs every night at a bar because he never makes it through an audition. His regular meetings with rejections convince him that conventional talent is not good enough - he starts believing that you need extras such as being popular, or even unpopular, to get the world to notice you.

The bitterness in Jack’s heart grows as realizes that his music, his most prized possession, is dying on his shelf. A desperate Jack decides to go all out to get the world to notice him. He is joined on his quest for success by his morally upright girl friend, Jaime, who does not agree with the means that he wants to adopt.

Direction: Golam Ashraf
Music: Levee
Lights: Avyakt Kumar Agarwal
Sound: Angshu Chatterjee

The play is Jack’s story, as narrated by him, the most trustworthy accountant of his life.  We get unique insight into the mind of Jack who is willing to go to any lengths to see his music succeed. At the same time, Jack pushes us to think about our own values and forces us to wonder about how far we are willing to go to be successful.

Will Jack ever be successful? Are his methods really unethical in this ever-changing world? Do ends really justify the means? And what does life have to say about all this?  To get answers to these questions and more, join us for The Mirror has Two Hands

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