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MFAH Special Performance: Water Lilies: A Trilogy

Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and SAMSKRITI - Society for Indian Performing Arts at Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium

September 25, 2011

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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents a MFAH Special Performance: Water Lilies: A Trilogy, Sunday, Sep 25, 2011, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM. A Play Reading by Author Gowri Ramnarayan.

The MFAH hosts the Play Reading of Water Lilies, a three-act play written and directed by artist and journalist Dr. Gowri Ramnarayan, co-founder of JustUs Repertory Theatre based in Chennai,...

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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents a MFAH Special Performance: Water Lilies: A Trilogy, Sunday, Sep 25, 2011, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM. A Play Reading by Author Gowri Ramnarayan.

The MFAH hosts the Play Reading of Water Lilies, a three-act play written and directed by artist and journalist Dr. Gowri Ramnarayan, co-founder of JustUs Repertory Theatre based in Chennai, India. Water Lilies is Dr. Ramnarayan´s fourth play, each of which explores themes of war, displacement, love, loneliness, and loss in world rent by racial, religious, economic, and political divides.

Inspired by a visit to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston where Dr. Ramnarayan saw Claude Monet´s Water Lilies, each act of Water Lilies: A Trilogy takes a witty, perceptive, and empathetic look at brief encounters between two strangers—a man and a woman, from different racial, cultural and linguistic backgrounds—who meet by accident in a public space in the United States. As they share confidences and spill secrets, their chance encounters explore what such meetings mean for the intimate act of creation that is living itself.

The Play Reading will include video clips of the play. The play was presented in Chennai India. Produced by JustUs Repertory. This program is generously cosponsored by Indian Performing Arts - Samskriti, Houston.

Pictured: Claude Monet, Water Lilies (Nymphéas), 1907, oil on canvas. Gift of Mrs. Harry C. Hanszen.

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Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium

1001 Bissonnet Street
Houston, TX 77006

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Tickets:

Admission is free and open to the public with general museum admission.

Museum Admission:
$7.00 adults
$3.50 seniors/children 5-18

Times:

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM. A reception to meet the speaker follows the lecture.

Phone: 713-639-7300

Parking:

Museum Parking Garage
Located directly east of the Beck and Law buildings, the MFAH Visitors Center features a four-story covered parking garage.

The easy-to-find parking entrance is on Binz, marked by a large, yellow arrow.

You're always protected from the elements when you park your car in the Museum Garage. From there, you can go to the Visitors Center lobby and find a ticketing desk and up-to-the minute museum information.

As an added convenience, you can enter the Beck and Law buildings from the Visitors Center through security-monitored, climate-controlled tunnels connecting all three buildings.

Accessibility Info: Currently, no accessibility information is available for this event.

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