About the Plays : # Irani Café : Welcome to Hormuzd’s Eating Joint and Beer Bar that has launched many avatars of love. A play with a freewheeling form, and very fluid which enables it to skip between a cast of 17 and eight strands of story-telling that creates all kinds of hilarious and poignant situations. ### Snapshots from an Album : Skipping between three generations from the past to the present, this play begins with teenage love, and ages gracefully. Beneath the surface the play looks at the shifting attitudes to marriage, home, to modern relationships and to the role of women. ### Clogged Arteries : Avinash Mathur has everything – and a clogged artery. A series of incidents with his wife, problem children, mistress, ranging from the tragic to the ridiculous, gradually reveal the inner design of the play that urban middle class life is “a clogged artery”. # # # Shiv Subrahmanyam is a playwright who is also an actor and award winning screenwriter. He won the filmfare award for best screenplay for PARINDA and best story for HAZAARON KHWAISHEIN AISI. Apart from the plays that feature in this edition, he has written plays like Captain India, Toxic, Coffee in the Canteen, Five Minutes for Mrs Chatterjee and Footpath.He directed his own work on stage under his theatre company Zero which he in the later years called Playtrix Players. Prithvi theatre was where his theatre writing and acting took form and shape. He wrote and performed for all mediums. He bagged the best actor award in a negative role for the series MUKTI BANDHAN.