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Discuss “Culture clash”

City Theatre’s Mother Teresa is Dead presents opposing world views of the East and West, of collectivism and individualism, and asks if it is possible to reconcile the two perspectives.

Written by British playwright Helen Edmundson, the play begins when Mark (Sam Redford) finds his wife Jane (Rebecca Harris) at the home of English expatriate Frances (Kristin Griffith) in India. Jane had disappeared from her home in England seven weeks earlier, leaving Mark to care for their 5-year-old son, Joe. Mark soon learns that Jane had been working in a children’s shelter in India with a man named Srinivas (Nehal Joshi) until one day she suddenly disappeared again. Frances later found Jane, crying on the street clutching a white plastic bag. No one...

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