Indian Playwright’s Work Staged at USC

By: Diane Krieger

November 20, 2009 7:56 AM

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• Amin El Gamal and Lisa Hori perform in the prologue to Naga Mandala.

Imagine setting out to be Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw and Tom Stoppard all rolled into one. Immodest as it sounds, that’s the goal Girish Karnad has set himself.

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