Recently I saw a Marathi play at Mumbai Marathi Sahitya Sangh, Girgaon, called Dushyant-priya, beloved of Dushyant, based on Kalidasa’s famous Sanskrit play, Shakuntalayam. But this was a play with a difference. It is a play about a play, and here Shakuntala was a man.

The female lead playing Shakuntala is unable to continue just two weeks before the main show, and so one of the male actors is asked to substitute, like the female impersonators of yore. And then something happens.