DIRECTOR'S NOTES

Success was first produced by Theatre X in 1991. John Kishline interviewed various prominent citizens of Milwaukee and asked for their public and private definitions of success. The resulting chamber play was 70 minutes of real time in the life of a driven, highly accomplished advertising executive. It was a kind of meditation on the costs and trade-offs of success.

Twenty years later, the play has been rewritten and somewhat re-conceived for this tour. The soul of the play is unaltered but the piece is more current, more linear and more international. 

Indeed, though the story is firmly planted in the context of American politics, we believe it will resonate with a modern Indian audience both on a basic human level and as a kind of societal question. How is success to be defined – not only by an individual, but by a nation? 

Finally, having used Skype to both cast and rehearse Delhi actress Kriti Pant before we arrived, we’ve not only enriched our experience here, we’ve come to a new appreciation of how connected we are, and much we share in these questions and their answers.

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Performances in Delhi, Gurgaon, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, and Hyderabad