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category: Drama
published: May 2012
ISBN:9781770910430
publisher: Playwrights Canada Press

Brothel #9

by Anusree Roy, introduction by Iris Turcott

tagged: canadian, women authors
Description

A deal has been struck between two men in India—twenty-one hundred rupees in exchange for a young village woman named Rekha. Sent to Calcutta without knowing why, Rekha finds herself in the confines of a brothel with Jamuna, a prostitute and madam, who is resigned to her trade. In these conditions, Rekha must shape her destiny and find inner liberty.

About the Authors

Anusree Roy is a Governor General’s Literary Award–nominated writer and actor whose work has premiered internationally. Her plays include Trident Moon, Sultans of the Street, Brothel #9, Roshni, Letters to my Grandma, Little Pretty and The Exceptional, and Pyaasa. Her plays and performances have won her four Dora Mavor Moore Awards along with multiple nominations. She is the recipient of the KM Hunter Artist Award, the RBC Emerging Artist Award, and the Carol Bolt Award, was named as a protégé of the Siminovitch Prize, and was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. She lives in Toronto.


Anusree Roy is a Governor General’s Literary Award–nominated writer and actor whose work has premiered internationally. Her plays include Trident Moon, Sultans of the Street, Brothel #9, Roshni, Letters to my Grandma, Little Pretty and The Exceptional, and Pyaasa. Her plays and performances have won her four Dora Mavor Moore Awards along with multiple nominations. She is the recipient of the KM Hunter Artist Award, the RBC Emerging Artist Award, and the Carol Bolt Award, was named as a protégé of the Siminovitch Prize, and was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. She lives in Toronto.

Contributor Notes

Anusree Roy was born and raised in Calcutta, India, before moving with her family to Toronto. Roy is a recent graduate of the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama at the University of Toronto. Since graduating she has met with great success with Pyaasa, winning two Dora Mavor Moore Awards for Outstanding New Play and Outstanding Performance. Roy's latest play, Brothel #9, premiered at Factory Theatre in Toronto in 2011 and was a finalist for the Carol Bolt Award for Playwrights.

Awards
  • Short-listed, Governor General's Literary Award for Drama
  • Winner, Carol Bolt Award for Playwrights
Editorial Reviews

"Brothel #9 is her most ambitious, hardest hitting play to date." —Lynn Slotkin


"Roy's convincing dialogue shows how a disturbing semblance of domesticity persists in this horrible environment."

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