Free Outgoing
Written by Anupama Chandrasekhar
An Experience L.A. Event
Depart USC at 7:15 p.m.; return at 10:30 p.m.

ADMISSION:
Open to USC students only. Reservations required. RSVP beginning Tuesday, January 24, at 9 a.m. See description for details.* 

USC Students: RSVP

To attend a performance on your own, visit eastwestplayers.org. Free Outgoing at East West Players begins previews February 9 and closes March 12.

DESCRIPTION:
*This trip is for current USC students only. You must use the provided transportation to participate. Space is limited and advance registration is required. RSVP beginning Tuesday, January 24, at 9 a.m. Check-in for the event will begin at 6:30 p.m. on campus. Buses will depart at 7:15 p.m. and return to campus at 10:30 p.m. Dinner will be provided at check-in.

“A gripping and insightful story.”
—Time Out

Modern technology and old-world values collide in East West Players’ production of Free Outgoing, the internationally acclaimed play about a middle-class home in Chennai torn apart by an indiscreet cell-phone video. When a well-behaved Indian girl is filmed with a boy in her classroom, the video clip goes viral. Transmitted from person to person, it infects first the local community and then what feels like the entire country with a burning moral outrage. The play premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 2007 to sold-out shows and rave reviews.

Writer Anupama Chandrasekhar is a Chennai-based journalist-turned-playwright and the first Indian to be nominated for the London Evening Standard’s Charles Wintour Prize for Most Promising Playwright, the Whiting Award, and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Her play Disconnect, set in a call center in Chennai, has been translated into multiple languages and staged all over the world.

Additional Links:
East West Players Facebook, Twitter

Presented by USC Visions and Voices: The Arts and Humanities Initiative.