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Labor Day Reunion

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Author: Ahon GooptuA sample cover of the book: midnight blue handloom sari with gold embossed nameplate and lettering for the title and author's name. The border of the sari lines the right hand margin of the cover.
Pages: 66
Year of Publication: 2026
Price: ₹300 / $12 (USD)
ISBN:
978-81-995932-7-5 (9788199593275)

About the Author
Ahon Gooptu is drawn to interdisciplinary collaborations for telling queer, brown, and im/migrant narratives that play with memory in non-linear ways. Born and raised in Kolkata, India — where he currently resides and works as a playwright, actor, and theatre producer — Ahon has found semblances of home in New York, Illinois, Iowa, Washington, Connecticut, and Florida in the US. He trained at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center and holds an MA in Theatre and Performance Research from Florida State University and a BA in Theatre and English from Grinnell College.

Among other companies, he has worked with Steppenwolf in Chicago, Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Taproot Theatre in Seattle, Treasure Trunk Theatre in New York, Farmers Alley Theatre in Kalamazoo, and Ranan, The Red Curtain, and Pickle Factory Dance Foundation in Kolkata. He is founding collective member of Curl, co-founder and former Managing Producer of Side B Society, and former Artistic Associate of Make/Shift Theatre Company.

Ahon has published a collection of short plays, All That Glistens (Grinnell College Press), which includes Labor Day, an early iteration of Labor Day Reunion (Kolkata, Tallahassee). Other playwriting credits include Item (Kolkata, Chennai), Seasons of Love (New York, Chicago, Kolkata), Looking For (Tallahassee), Taramandal! Ek Naya Safar (Sandy Moffett Commission for India/USA/Japan co-production), Subject for a Short Story (Minneapolis), and at the end of the tunnel (Grinnell).

About the Play
Labor Day Reunion is a 21st-century memory play set in Chicago. Three friends find love and connection within each other, until they’re compelled to reckon with questions concerning their identity, queerness, and the very root of their relationship with one another.

2006. Amidst an uncertain world, Sachi is preparing to give birth. Josh, the father, is running late to the hospital. Amari, Sachi’s nurse, negotiates news about his family’s future in the US with the stress of an increasingly complicated birth. Each questions their belonging in the world outside the delivery room.

 

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