The Trip

A play by

Manjima Chatterjee

Duration -   60 Minutes

No of characters -   12

Short Synopsis

Manu, a sheltered 17-year-old girl in Kolkata in the late 1990s, is seriously considering her next step in life: a move that threatens her notions of morality and selfhood and will pit her for life against her family. At...Read Full Synopsis


The Trip

A play By Manjima Chatterjee

Go to page   of

Go to page   of

Synopsis

Manu, a sheltered 17-year-old girl in Kolkata in the late 1990s, is seriously considering her next step in life: a move that threatens her notions of morality and selfhood and will pit her for life against her family. At this point Kumar, a distant relative, arrives with a proposition. He wants to take a biking trip to his old family estate at Shantriya, South-Western Bengal, and wants Manu’s company. Manu is eager for a break from her unloving family, and agrees to go. But what Manu does not know is that Kumar, too, has a secret: one far more shocking than her own. The Trip is a story of two idealistic individuals trying to explore their understanding of the world. It reflects an era before the tide of globalization and technology swept up Indian society, the late 1990s. In this world, it looks at two people, each at a threshold in their life, and the impact they leave on each other.

Duration

60   Minutes

No of characters

12

Other plays that may be of interest

TAMBOLA

a play by Akshay Kapoor

"Three ordinary men - a compulsive gambler, a down-on-his-luck garage owner and a jobless I.T. employee - in desperate need for money hatch a plan to r..."

Mukhomukhi

a play by Sibaji Gupta

"'Mukhomukhi' is a social drama adapted from Samaresh Majumdar's story 'Asatyakam' and Buddhadeb Basu's verse-drama 'Pratham Partha'. Partha was born t..."

The Body

a play by Nayantara Nayar

"The pandemic traps three old friends Gita, Arvind, and Umar in their childhood apartment complex in Chennai. Matters take a morbid turn when Arvind’s ..."