All three plays were written by Abhijit Sircar, a computer teacher in Calcutta, India. The plays, written between 1988 to 1992, received the Best Production as well as Best Playwright awards at the British Council One Act Play Competitions, held every year in Calcutta. Son of famous Indian playwright Badal Sircar, Abhijit Sircar has entertained Calcutta for well over a decade now, with his brilliant plots and slick writing style. Click here to view some newspaper clips on him and his plays. 

The plays have been adapted to recent global events to give them a distinct contextual flavor. The cast comprises of a group of budding actors, drawn from Indian undergraduates studying in Nanyang Technological University. This is their maiden performance as a group, so do support this bold enterprise and enjoy a strong flavor of Indian drama in a global setting.  

Bull Run takes a light hearted jab at the real reason behind the Asian economic collapse. It is about an ambitious stock trader who makes a killing, there is his disgruntled friend, there is an obsessed playwright who wants a conclusive end to his story, and last but not the least, at the heart of it all, there is a Devil! The play ends in an O'Henry style twist.  

Child's Play is about a group of unemployed young men whose lives revolve around idle gossip and trips to the movies. However there is an underlying frustration about all this idleness, which becomes evident when one of the group is about to secure a job. Amidst their idle banter, a plan to rob a bank germinates. They play-act their roles as prospective robbers in their hostel room, but things start taking a very serious undertone. The play, once again ends in a tremendous twist, so typical of Sircar's plays.  

Author Author, the last play of the night, takes a serious look at the trappings of middle class society, where survival and human dignity often contradict each other. A-not-so-well recognized author, finds the chief protagonist of his latest novel, another victim of an unfair social order, come to life. Moloy, the victim, claims that the author has been unfair to him, and wants a new lease of life, much to the latter's dismay. The play enters a new dimension when Moloy swaps positions with other characters in the novel, only to realize how out of place he is. The play ends on a moral note, where both author and protagonist, learn a valuable lesson.  

So there you have it! A complete pot pourri it is, replete with comedy, tension, sorrow, joy, hopelessness and optimism - a wide spectrum of emotions that are guaranteed to tickle your artistic palate. After experiencing "A Night of Emotional Economics", one can perhaps take the current economic gloom, which shrouds our daily life, with a pinch of salt and say, "Hey, who cares? If the Devil brought the Asian markets down, there is a always an Angel waiting in the wings -- so there!"