Great White Gives It Up by Ajai Tripathi

A follow-up to Tripathi’s “Great White Gets Off,” this stand alone play follows Bert and Sandeep in the next part of their journey, discovering whether love across cultures can really last.

Hoping to bring their relationship to the next phase, Bert proposes to Sandeep with his mother’s Claddagh ring on their romantic trip to the Ireland. But as they take their odyssey through Dublin, role playing as their favorite revolutionaries from India and Ireland, the specter of war, empire and occupation threatens their identities in ways that become harder and harder to reconcile. Bert and Sandeep must attempt to stand on solid ground together, wondering if they can ever have a future with one foot solidly planted in the past.