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The Rules
A late arrival tests the private agreements that hold three friends together.
Open The RulesPlaywright / New York
Dipika Guha Plays about power, memory, and the stories we inherit.
Dipika Guha writes for the stage, moving between intimate character studies and large, formally restless worlds.
Her work has been produced and developed with theatres in New York, Seattle, and beyond. She is an affiliated artist at New Georges and lives in New York.
Based in
New York
Representation
Bret Adams, Ltd.
Forms
Full length and short plays
Selected plays
Three rooms to enter
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I Enter the Valley
A study of authority, art, and the women who refuse to stay silent.
Open the play03
Blown Youth
A story about ambition, inheritance, and the parts a woman is told to want.
Open the playThe work
Language, form, and the room between
The plays are built for collision: wit with grief, poetry with argument, the private self with the public story.
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Language first
The sentence is the first piece of staging. Rhythm, silence, and breath are treated as architecture.
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Form under pressure
Comedy and grief share a room. Genre bends when a character needs another way to be heard.
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Collaboration as craft
New work grows through actors, directors, designers, and dramaturgs. The rehearsal room is part of the writing.
Production record
From the archive
2014
The Art of Gaman opens at the Women's Project
A world premiere in Architecture of Becoming, directed by Lauren Keating.
2014
I Enter the Valley joins the first Kilroys List
The play was recognised among the first group of works on the list.
Inquiries
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