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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Everyone Loves a Good Tsunami\nEvent Url: http://ww
 w.artshound.com/event/detail/21627/Everyone_Loves_a_Good_Tsunami\nEvent Da
 te Begin: 2009-04-03\nEvent Date End: 2009-04-12\n\nShunya Theatre present
 s Everyone Loves a Good Tsunami\, a play in English by Sujit Saraf.  Perfo
 rming April 3 through April 12 at Barnevelder Movement/Arts Complex.  Ever
 yone Loves a Good Tsunami is a brilliant and light-hearted farce which rev
 eals the behind-the-scenes politics of a non-profit organization in Califo
 rnia. Shunya Theatre\, Houston's premier South Asian theatre troupe\, give
 s a comedic performance that is certain to have you laughing -- and perhap
 s recalling someone you know!\nThe playwright writes:\nIn December 2004\, 
 a devastating tsunami killed more than a hundred thousand people in Asia. 
 It was the holiday season in much of the world. Families were glued to the
 ir televisions\, donor nations and aid agencies were at the front-end of t
 heir 2005 budget cycles. The tsunami had timed itself perfectly. The world
  donated with a generosity unseen before.\nFrom my vantage point in Silico
 n Valley\, home to noveau-billionaires\, I saw how people were happy to us
 e any opportunity to advance their public profiles. Much pious rubbish was
  mouthed during the campaign to collect money for the victims\; many peopl
 e got their first chance to give television interviews\; many mediocre art
 ists got to perform\; many organizations managed to grab news headlines. S
 oon\, however\, the world had seen newer and more fashionable disasters\, 
 and the market moved where market-forces led it.\nEveryone Loves A Good Ts
 unami is a farce about competing 'non-profit' organizations in Silicon Val
 ley which\, amidst organizational turmoil\, are suddenly presented with a 
 convenient tsunami. It was staged by Naatak (California) in December\, 200
 5\, Natya Bharati (Washington DC) in May\, 2007 and Pratidhwani (Seattle) 
 in June\, 2007.\nBio:\nI was born in Bihar\, India\, went to school in Dar
 jeeling and Delhi\, then received engineering degrees from the Indian Inst
 itute of Technology\, Delhi\, and the University of California\, Berkeley.
  For a few years\, I was a research scientist with NASA\, then briefly an 
 assistant professor at IIT Delhi. I now work in Palo Alto\, California\, w
 here I conduct research on space missions and satellite control. I am the 
 artistic director of Naatak\, a theater and film company near San Francisc
 o.\n\nStart time: Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm\nSundays at 3pm
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SUMMARY:Everyone Loves a Good Tsunami
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