Tantra Theatre Group brings to you a quick weekend entertainment fix: Quickies - a set of one-act plays that pan out as short conversations, each one more interesting than the other! Quickies opens with select comedies set in a cafe where the conversation is not just about the coffee! As the characters reel under the caffeine hit, they spill beans and end up cleaning more than the mess. This set comprises endless variations of boy-meets-girl, blind dates which progressively get more "interesting" and the delicate balance between truth and fiction while flirting your way through a conversation, all in the quest of "the chosen one".

What happens next, when one decides to take the conversation from the cafe to the bedroom? The steamy conversations over coffee in the first half mature in the second half and shift the spotlight to layered concepts of love, infidelity, and the everyday joys and subconscious tug of war of married couples.

Catch all this and many more regaling and heartwarming Quickies replete with the music of greats like Elvis and Belafonte!

Tantra Theatre Group (TTG):

Soumitra Acharya (co-founder)

Alongside a day job, Soumitra dabbles extensively in writing, acting, music and direction. For the last 12 years he has been an active member in the theatre scene in Delhi, Jamshedpur, Kolkata, Pune and Mumbai in English, Hindi and Bengali plays in various capacities, as an actor, director and scriptwriter. He has adapted, directed and acted in numerous plays, notable among them being Manto's Tetwal ka Kutta and Toba Tek Singh, a stage adaption of 12 Angry Men, etc. He is passionate about the art of storytelling, which led to him co-founding the Tantra Theatre Group, committed to explore unique, alternate and experiential modes of storytelling.

Tania RoyChowdhury (co-founder & Producer) 

An avid reader, movie and theatre buff, Tania has never let her passion for academic and professional excellence come in the way of her love for all things in the English lit space. As a co-founder of Tantra Theatre Group, Tania is putting to application her long held passion of making the experience of storytelling, unique and memorable. The ultimate combination of left and right brain, she can be called the 'Brain' behind the Tantra Theatre Group.

Deepan Dasgupta

Deepan started delving in art at a very young age and dabbles with painting, photography, graphic design, poetry and percussions. He firmly believes that production design is something where he can explore all of these. Although he never believed in taking the center stage, he has definitely ensured the seamless connect between lights, sound and the set, in multiple productions.

Avinash Chopde

A management consultant by the day (and till late nights mostly), Avinash is a dilettante trying to find his spot in Mumbai’s theatre circuit. He has spent his formative years with Nagpur’s well known English Theatre group – Sorting Hat Theatre and played significant roles in SHT’s acclaimed production “Karma and the Pig Philosophy” - A tribute to Oscar Wilde and later in “A Time for Farewells” and “Silence! The Court is in Session” with different productions. He has played pivotal roles in multiple TTG productions like “The Farewell”, “Discovering Ray” and “Farrago”. He is quite a hand behind the camera as well and has a keen interest in freestyle and candid photography.

Sushant Warde

Sushant excels in playing characters that are very far removed from himself, and that challenge is what drives him in his acting. He has previously worked as an actor in multiple plays in lead / critical roles, notable among them being Vijay Tendulkar’s “Silence! The court is in session” and a stage adaption of Reginald Rose’s “12 Angry Men”. He has played pivotal roles in multiple TTG productions like “The Farewell”, “Discovering Ray”, “Malgudi Revisited” and “Farrago”.

Archana Iyer

Archana began her theatre debut with Sambhashiva a play by Girish Karnad, she has performed as storyteller numerous times for Tall Tales and was selected as one of the top story tellers in 2015 performing at the NCPA. As a writer she’s won many accolades - winning the Tata Lit Live short story contest recently. She’s also a poet, corporate trainer, L&D consultant and emcee.