Word: chennapragada
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...Aparna Chennapragada, a star of the South Asian Association’s upcoming production Interrogations, playing Usha—an Indian immigrant trapped in an abusive relationship—was a challenge. But despite having no experience in theater—she herself came to the U.S. to earn a master’s in computer science and now works in Cambridge—her performance is haunting and subtle...
...Chennapragada, who saw the casting call notice in an Indian grocery store, isn’t the only member of the cast to bring a different experience to the stage. The cast of Interrogations is unusual among Harvard productions in that it features students, faculty and staff from Harvard, MIT, Tufts and Wellesley, as well as members of the larger community. Some, like director Neilesh Bose of Tufts and Harvard stage guru Kiran K. Deol ’05, have been working in theater for years, while others have never been onstage before...
...Chennapragada says that her own liberal upbringing in India made it difficult to identify with her role as a woman who stays with her battering husband for over a decade. “My first reaction was, ‘She’s a wuss,’” she says. Her extensive research into the role, from looking up South Asian domestic violence groups to talking to survivors, soon changed her mind. “You read more and you see that the conditioning and social structure is so oppressive that she doesn?...
...situation is worsened, Chennapragada adds, by the fact that immigrant women who get married and leave their home country have no support structure in the United States. “If anything goes wrong, you just don’t have anything to fall back...
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