HINDU TIMES: When the gods come to Dundee to make things right By David Pollock
Dundee playwright Jaimini Jethwa, whose latest work is Hindu Times.
“Hindu Times is about the Hindu gods coming to Dundee in the avatars of these typical, mental guys to save Earth,” says Dundonian playwright Jaimini Jethwa of her new play.
Hindu Times which will be available to hear this weekend as part of the Sound Stage series of new audio works, co-produced by Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum.
“Earth is out of balance, and in Hindu mythology Vishnu comes to earth nine times because there’s an imbalance, so this is his tenth time,” Jethwa continues. “But when they get to Dundee, they get a bit distracted – they end up getting locked in a Spar shop at night and getting on it.
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“I enjoyed all of that, of course,” says Sievewright, “but I just felt there was something about me that didn’t quite fit in to that West End world. I wanted to get back into the Scottish scene; and In 2012, I had an audition for Cora Bissett’s Glasgow Girls, the musical about the Glasgow schoolgirls who campaigned for their asylum seeker friends to stay in the UK.
Dawn Sievewright and John McLarnan
“And as soon as I got into that, I just thought, this is it, this is what I’ve been looking for. Then I met Vicky Featherstone, the then-director of the National Theatre of Scotland, and she has been a huge influence on me as well, an amazing director.”
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