Anupama Chandrasekhar’s Disconnect has its American premiere.
Bureau Report
CHICAGO: Disconnect, a drama about a call center in India, began its American premiere at Chicago’s Tony Award-honored Victory Gardens Theater, today. Written by Anupama Chandrasekhar, and directed by Ann Filmer, the play begins its official opening night on February 4th.
Disconnect stars Minita Gandhi, Behzad Dabu, Kamal J. Hans, Arya Daire, Teresa Kuruvila, Owais Ahmed and Debargo Sanyal as the lead characters.
In Disconnect, forty-something Avinash [Kamal J. Hans] is hopelessly out of step in a company that demands success, energy, and youth. To bring his game up, he is transferred to work with the bright young graduates in Illinois — down on the fourth floor.
In the windowless, nighttime offices of a call center in Chennai, is a bustling world of energetic Indian workers dreaming the American Dream and faking U.S. accents to target their American ‘marks’ maxed out on credit cards. Disconnect is a powerful and witty drama about the consequences of consumer culture and the intricacies of our interconnected global economy.
The Performances play at the Victory Gardens Biograph Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln Ave., in Chicago’s Lincoln Park.
The play has got some good reviews in the past, with The Independent saying of its performance in the United Kingdom: “A marvel…Disconnect is the Glengarry Glen Ross of our day.”