An American professor pursuing a lost letter by E.M. Forster disappears in India, provoking a manhunt across three millennia in a play within a play within a play within a play within a play.
Cast:
SUNIL GUPTA, 20s-30s, dark, Indian tour guide, also plays:
VIKRAM RATHORE, barber
MAHARAJA, petty despot
KAMAL KIRTANE, eunuch singer and painter MAHISHISURA, buffalo demon
GARUDA, winged messenger HINDU WIFE
MUSLIM WIFE
CHRISTIAN WIFE
BUDDHIST WIFE JAIN WIFE BROTHER, elderly
DANTE PARDO, 30s-40s, light, American, also plays:
WEBSTER NELSON, academic
EDWARD MORGAN FORSTER, novelist
HASNAIN KHIMJI, archer
AKBAR, Mughal emperor
AMIT, Hindu ascetic
BRAHMA, supreme god
DURGA, goddess
WARRIOR
