This September, Off-Kendrik is delighted to bring its 3rd annual South Asian American Theater Festival (SAATh) to the Mosesian Center for the Arts in Watertown, MA. 

Watch 10 unique performances across 3 days (September 20th-22nd), representing the cultures and stories of half a dozen different communities in South Asia, as well as a guest performance by the Asian American Playwrights Collective. Plays will be performed in a variety of languages with English supertitles. Join us as patrons of theater and the arts to witness the South Asian diaspora come together to tell their stories. We highlight the best of local multilingual South Asian theater from the greater Boston community as well as from New Jersey and New York city. 

Tickets and schedule: Find this year's lineup, schedule, ticketing, and more at www.offkendrik.com/saath 

- When:  Friday September 20th (6:30pm-9:30 pm), Saturday September 21st (2:30pm-8:30pm), Sunday September 22nd (2:30-8pm) 

- Where: Mosesian Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal St, Watertown, MA 02472 

- Tickets: www.offkendrik.com/saath 

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About the show: In 2022, the SAATh Festival was born out of the desire to use performative arts as a platform for immigrants to share their experiences to push beyond stereotypes of South Asian communities. Spearheaded by the Boston-based non-profit theater group “Off-Kendrik”, SAATh is a three-day celebration of stories and performances that address a range of issues in multiple languages, from politics in countries of origin to complexities of ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. It offers insights into the diversity of the South Asian-American diaspora, and provides a rare opportunity for community-building, education, and enrichment for people both outside the community and within.

Highlights:  We celebrate Mathathi theater through three plays over Friday and Saturday.  We delve into the fictional retelling of the famous sufi poet Shah Hussein in the play "Madho"(English).  We celebrate the bicentenniel of the famous Bengali poet Michael Madhusudan Dutt through letters written by women to their significant other- Birangona Kabya (English).  "Court Martial "(Hindi) is an exploration of caste bias in the Indian army.  There are two Bengali plays, "Ekti Asamanyo Ghotona", an adaptation of David Mamet's Oleanna and the famous children's play "Lokkhoner Shaktishel", a farce based on an episode from Ramayana.  Finally we have invited the Asian American Playwright collective (AAPC) to present four short original plays highlighting the Asian American immigrant experience.