Sunny SIDE UP

A corporate lawyer, physio-therapist and designer come together to recreate the sixties on stage

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Differences bond people the best, at least when it comes to creativity. So, when a corporate lawyer, physiotherapist andu00a0 designer move beyond their busy professional lives to fuel their fetish for acting, you can be sure the greasepaint will shine at its grandest. As they get ready for the screening of the play Sunshine Boys, we delve deeper.

Maiden over

Sunny days: Percival Billimoria and Sanjeev Johri in Sunshine Boys

The play is the maiden product of The Amateurs Performers Bureau (APB), which was established with the objective of providing a platform to professionals and people who have full-time jobs to display their talent in performing and visual arts. The play Sunshine Boys was originally set in New York City in the Sixties, and directed by Neil Simon. It was then adapted by corporate lawyer Percival Billimoria (who, himself, stars in the play) to contemporary India, featuringu00a0 a Mumbai chawl.

Great expectations

The play stars Dr Sanjeev Johri as Gurvinder Galgotia and Percival Billimoria as Fali Daruvala two theatre friends who part ways due to Guri's retirement, which leaves Fali bitter and lonely. When Fali's nephew persuades the pair to come together once again after 11 years, the old resentments and idiosyncrasies surface with a vengeance leading to a hilarious comedy of mismatched expectations. Other castu00a0 includes Pranav Thakur, Chandani Mehra and Supriya Shukla.

Noble thought

"Working with a group of people who are not professional actors has its own advantages. For all of us, it is a passion that comes together which inevitably leads to bringing out our best,"says Billimoria, director. All proceeds from the play will go to the organisation 'Cankidsu2026Kidscan' which works with children who have cancer, and extends support to their families.

Sunshine Boys
Where: Kamani Auditorium, Copernicus Marg, Janpath
When: July 11, 7:30 pm onwards
Tickets available at: Teksons Bookshop (all outlets) and Bahrisons Book Shop (Khan Market)
Prices start from: Rs 250

There's more

Theatre lovers rejoice as there is more coming your way. The Mini Rage festival starting tomorrow showcases three English play by noted playwright Rahul Da Cunha over the next two days.

A sneak peak:

Chaos Theory
Tomorrow, 8 pm
The play tracks the lives of two college professors, who experience a lifetime together without expressing their real emotions.

Pune Highway
July 11, 6.30 pm
Three young men are holed up in a seedy hotel room just off the Bombay-Pune highway. They are scared, they are tired, and they are on the run.

Me, Kash and Cruise
July 12, 9 pm
The work is a roller-coaster story of three Mumbaikars and their attempts to deal with the city's ever changing social, civic and political landscape with mostly hilarious and sometimes tragic consequences.

Mini Rage festival
At: Habitat World, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road
Tickets available at: IHC programme desk
Prices start from: Rs 100