Monday 2nd & Tuesday 3rd June 7.30pm
The Nuffield, Southampton
£10 – £17 (Art Asia Members and concessions available)
Box Office: 023 8067 1771 www.nuffieldtheatre.co.uk
Art Asia and The Nuffield present Kali Theatre
in association with Manchester Contact Theatre
In the cotton fields of Punjab, Baba, an ageing farmer tends to his crop and pins his hopes of prosperity on GM seeds and Western pesticides. His feckless son, Dhani, full of frustrated ambition, dreams of going to America.
His dutiful daughter, Chandni is torn between staying on the land she loves and facing poverty or following her childhood sweetheart to a more prosperous life abroad. The final reckoning on Baba’s land draws out painful truths and forces the family to the brink of collapse in a fast changing world rapidly losing its values.
This beautifully written and moving new play tells of the disastrous environmental damage and devastating effect on real human lives triggered when the forces of nature, tradition and globalisation collide.
