Award winning BC-raised actress Anita Majumdar will be making a return visit to Vancouver with a medley of new dance-plays: Fish Eyes, Boys with Cars, and Let Me Borrow That Top.
In each play, the celebrated television and film actress will be narrating coming-of-age stories of three teenage girls in small town Canada: Meena, Naz, and Candace.
Inspired by so-called honour killings, hip-hop, and teenage heartache, Anita’s tour-de-force performances celebrate the joy and awkwardness of youth while slyly tackling issues of colonialism and cultural identity.
“While I’m dressed in very specific South Asian dance costumes and there are references to Indian pop culture and music, the coming-of-age struggles these protagonists endure are a reflection of what I watched the people around me struggle with in my small hometown of Port Moody, B.C. These young women battle a high school microcosm of patriarchy that’s still very much relevant to Canadian communities. While watching these plays, don’t let the shiny costumes fool you,” said Majumdar who is now based in Toronto. 
The Port Moody raised actor is best known for her role in the CBC television film Murder Unveiled for which she received the Best Actress award at the 2005 Asian Festival of Films.
She also was a leading cast memmber in Deepa Mehta's 2012 movie adaptation of Salmon Rushdie's seminal novel Midnight's Children. 
The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival is one of Vancouver’s signature events. Produced over three weeks each January, the PuSh Festival presents 
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