Link to tickets: https://www.guildhall.org/events/play-in-the-garden-a-perfect-ganesh-by-terrence-mcnally/
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Directed by Amanda Kate Joshi
Featuring Shalin Agarwal, Irene Glezos, Lué McWilliams, and Jake Swain
Guild Hall celebrates our 90th anniversary season with a look back at the work of the luminous artist members of our Academy of the Arts. Playwright Terrence McNally was a great friend of the John Drew Theater as well as a Lifetime Achievement Honoree in 1993, the same year his heartfelt and spiritual play A Perfect Ganesh opened to acclaim at the Manhattan Theatre Club, and later went on to be nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Amanda Kate Joshi returns to the Drew to direct this special one-night reading as a highlight of our PLAY IN THE GARDEN series of staged readings.
In A Perfect Ganesh, two middle-aged American women travel to India hoping to heal from their personal tragedies and find inner peace. After experiencing true culture shock upon arrival, the women are joined by the Hindu god Ganesha. This god of wisdom accompanies them, assuming many different guises along the way. As the women struggle to overcome their traumas, Ganesh provides wisdom, humor, and safety, which allows them a glimpse into another world, and a deeper look into themselves. A Perfect Ganesh draws on the tragic and the comic, showing us that while one can look for solace outside oneself, it is ultimately within oneself where it is found.
Run time: Approx 2 hours
Originally produced by the Manhattan Theatre Club on June 27, 1993.
A PERFECT GANESH is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.
