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MINNEAPOLIS: Aditi Brenna Kapal, a local playwright from the Twin Cities showcased her fourth play in its season honoring women at Mixed Blood Premier which is showing in the months of February and March. Love person made its debut and is a love mystery of words which is performed in many different languages including American Sign Language (ASL), spoken English, projected E-mails and Sanskrit.
The hearing and the deaf audiences can fully understand his play. Love person shares stories of two couples one that is straight and the other that is lesbian and are surround with three cultures and four different languages, but the interesting part of this is that these connections are not through their sexual orientation or their physical appearances but more through misunderstanding through everyday communication.
Aditi Kapal, director, got this brilliant idea of love play when doing college voicing for the Northern Sign Theater company. At that time she was also doing extensive research of Sanskrit for a different project of hers.
She never mastered either language, but became to see similar parallels between the two languages in her own mind. Her curiosity led her to the library to uncover Sanskrit Love Poems translated in the 70's and more poems from that book.
Aditi claims no influence of Bollywood in her play, but it is a similar plot line to the Bollywood movie Mujhse Dosti Karoge where one sister writes e-mails on behalf of her sister in order for her sister to go out with a guy.
To add to this, in one of the scenes in the play the guy portrays his love with hand action on keyboard like actions of the movie Mohabatein. This show is different, humorous, adorable and must be seen nationwide.
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