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Chapters Indigo
•full-length play
•staged by Northern Light Theatre (Edmonton 1997)
•published in Ethnicities (NeWest 1999)
House of Sacred Cows is about the intersection of two tenuous institutions: the Indian extended family and the housing co-op. In the opening scene, Anand, an Indian graduate student, joins a co-op, only to have his parents’ ghosts show up in his room to remind him of all the duties he’s ignoring. Quill & Quire called it a “finely observed comedy of manners.” The Edmonton Journal wrote: “[A]n intricate, fascinating comedy. The texture of co-op life is hilariously captured.”
•one-act play
•staged by Frog & Nightgown (Toronto 1999, 2001)
•published in South Asian Review (November 2008)
By Air, By Water, By Wood is a comic retelling of a South Indian myth in which the heads of two women are mistakenly transposed. Martyred through this misfortune, the women transform into goddesses. In this version, their apotheosis hinges on an Oedipal twist. Reviewing an evening of one-acts, Toronto’s NOW Magazine wrote: “The best, Viswanathan's playful, slyly satiric tale...is vibrant and engrossing.”
•short radio play
•CBC Radio (national & Québec broadcasts)