Written by Mahesh Dattani

"Where There's a Will" is Mahesh Dattani's award winning & world acclaimed play where traditional family values meet the seven deadly sins. The play has several interesting aspects, one of them is portrayed by the Women. In the traditional Indian society women, be it a daughter-in-law, a wife or a mistress, are dependent on men, and this play shows what happens when they are pushed to the edge. The other aspect is about a father who is overpowering not only on his wife, but also on all the people he comes across including his son. Its about father's will to have everything run his way and son's struggle to define himself as an individual, separate from his successful father. One other aspect that is interesting is the way it contrasts how people can effect change or use power, for example, by the way the father demands authority out of his son & daughter-in-law, which is contrasted by the manners in which the mistress garners support.

This play was made possible with collaboration with Association for India's Development, Boise Chapter. "An exorcism of the patriarchal code"
Performed August 28th, 2004 at SPEC of Boise State University

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Direction & Production	Nishant Sinha
Assistant Director	Praveen Vaidyanathan
Set Design & Build	Ian Mcdaniel
Art, Costume, Make-up	Priya Ramaswamy, Gitanjali Ghosh, Pallavi Garg, Preethi Sundersan, Kiran Surthi
Music	Hari Naidu
Printing Design	Parag Banerjee

CAST
Son - Ajit Metha		Mouli Subramanian
Father - Husmukh Mehta		Parag Banerjee
Daughter-in-law - Preeti Mehta		Veera Srivastava
Mother - Sonal Mehta		Geetanjali Tandon
Mistress - Kiran Jhaveri		Vyjayanthi Prasad