BEHIND THE MOON
By Anosh Irani
Directed by Lois Anderson
In a Mughlai restaurant in Toronto, Ayub cooks and cleans. When a mysterious cab driver walks in one night and shatters his peace, Ayub must face reality, the family he’s left behind and the dreams he’s abandoned, all while keeping the restaurant clean to a mirror shine.
From award-winning playwright and author Anosh Irani, Behind the Moon is an achingly beautiful story of love and loss, freedom and faith, the meaning of brotherhood, and how we begin a new life.
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DATES:
March 27 – April 6, 2025
WHERE:
Vancity Culture Lab, The Cultch
RUNNING TIME:
TBD
CAST & CREATIVE TEAM
Performed by Praneet Akilla, Zahf Paroo, and Dhirendra Miyanger
Written by Anosh Irani
Directed by Lois Anderson
Producer: Libby Willoughby
Stage Manager: Jasmin Sandhu
Production Manager: Matthew Oviatt
Lighting Designer: Jonathan Kim
Sound Designer: Joelysa Pankanea
Costume Designer: Karthik Kadam
Set Designer: Patrick Rizzotti
Fight Directors: Nathania Bernabe & Jackie Hanlin (Affair of Honor)
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
ANOSH IRANI
Anosh Irani has published four critically acclaimed novels: The Cripple and His Talismans (2004), a national bestseller; The Song of Kahunsha (2006), which was an international bestseller and shortlisted for Canada Reads and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize; Dahanu Road (2010), which was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize; and The Parcel (2016), which was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction and the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. His play Bombay Black (2006) won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, as did his one-man show Buffoon (2019). His anthology The Bombay Plays: The Matka King & Bombay Black (2007) and his play The Men in White (2018) were both finalists for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama. Behind the Moon was a finalist for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play. Irani’s short stories have appeared in Granta and the Los Angeles Review of Books and have been collected in Translated from the Gibberish: Seven Stories and One Half Truth (2019). His nonfiction has been published in the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the Guardian, and the New York Times. His work has been translated into eleven languages, and he teaches fiction and playwriting in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.
