Under the Mangosteen Tree (UTMT) is an adventurous mix of ten stories by the great Malayalam writer Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, all very different, but with a common vein of love, humour and pathos running through them. A connecting link in this heady concoction is the character of Basheer himself, who plays narrator, participant and witness in turn. These stories are blended in a non-linear yet seamless narrative that reveals the extraordinary range of Basheer’s writing and experiences.

Cast:

Ashif A

Aparna Gopinath

Darshana Rajendran

Dharanidharan

Karuna Amarnath

Krish Dayal

Paul Mathew

Vinod Susheela

Crew:

Anamika Anand S

Antony Felix

aPH

Deepak Kurki Shivaswamy

Nandini Reddy

Niren Saldanha

Subodha Subrahmanya

Sudharshan K

Directed by: Rajiv Krishnan

120 minutes without intermission

Perch is a Chennai-based theatre group that has brought to the stage plays including Under the Mangosteen Tree, Moonshine and Skytoffee, Miss Meena, Kira Kozhambu, Jujubee, How to Skin a Giraffe, Cheruvannur Diaries – Typewriter Tales, Monkey and the Mobile, Mondays are best for flying out of Windows’, Ungala Neenga Yeppadi Paakka Virumbareenga and Kindhan Charithiram, most of which have been staged widely both at festivals and other venues across the country.