From April 28 – April 30 The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center and the Pen World Voices Festival will present the World Voices: International Playwrights Festival, bringing nine playwrights from around the world to New York. The festival is a rare opportunity for New York audiences to experience an exciting array of international theatre voices. As part of the event, PlayCo will present The Djinns of Eidgah by Indian playwright Abhishek Majumdar at 7:30pm on April 30 at the Segal Center. We hope you’ll come out to see Abhishek’s play as well as the other works in the festival. Here’s the complete line up of writers and directors:
Jalila Baccar’s Tsunami (Tunisia), directed by Saheem Ali
Dorota Maslowska’s No Matter How Hard We Try (Poland), directed by Paul Bargetto
Elfriede Jelinek’s Rechnitz (Austria), directed by Katherine Brook
Raimondo Cortese’s Holiday (Australia), directed by Oliver Butler
Guillermo Calderon directs his own Villa + Discurso (Chile)
Chong Wishing’s Yakiniku Dragon (Japan), directed by Victor Maog
Abhishek Majumdar directs his own The Djinns of Eidgah (India)
Huzir Sulaiman’s Cogito (Singapore), directed by Lila Neugebauer
Frantz Dominique Batraville’s Endless Vigils at Crête-à-Pierrot (Haiti), directed by Awoye Timpo
We hope you’ll come out to support these wonderful writers and stay for the post show conversations. Please check out the full schedule of plays.
April 28, 29, 30 | Daily at 2pm, 5pm, 7:30pm | Segal Theatre
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue
FREE + Open to the Public | First come, first served.
