One World Theatre

...the David Mamet play examines the issues of sexual harassment and political correctness in the backdrop of the education system in the United States...

Friday Weekly, about Oleanna - Dec. 11, 2011

Even through my jet-lag haze, something about the production struck me as especially moving. Perhaps it was because my expectations had to adjust to seeing dark, young Nepali actors with strong accents playing Russian characters from the 1900s, overtaking this very pre-revolutionary Russian situation and claiming it for contemporary Nepal.

Helena Worthen, about Three sisters - March 30, 2018

The set and the costumes were amazing just just so amazing. I loved the way the stage was used. Such an amazing and fulfilling stagecraft is a delight to watch.

Neeraj Murthy, about Anna in the Tropics - Feb. 11, 2017

It is in and of itself an extraordinary event: an international premiere of a new play based on a seminal memoir, with the memoirist herself on stage. It is also an instantiation of the humanity of victims and the value of testimony. It has an obvious relevance for Nepal. It shows us the Kafkaesque disorientation of arbitrary imprisonment, and it indicts the guards.

Rachel Moles (The Record), about The Little School - March 22, 2019

Subtle thematic connections link the Nepali segments into the original script nearly seamlessly, as if Matthew's story is reaching out and inviting people to speak and share their own experiences. For me personally, these offer some of the most striking moments of the performance. Though the US still has a very long way to go in terms of equality and rights for gender and sexual minorities, homosexuality and LGBTIQ issues have become so widely accepted, so openly discussed, so mainstream that Matthew's story is now quite familiar. But to hear similar, related stories from Nepali authors about their experiences as LGBTIQ people? It is truly eye-opening.

MNSVMag, about The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later - May 27, 2017

These stories are funny and sad, lively and lyrical, enacted by courageous young students, wives, mothers and artists. Rather than regarding femininity as a unified, homogeneous form, we celebrate the multiplicity of girls’ and women’s lives and raised voices!

Events In Nepal, about Telling A Tale: Kitchen Dramas - Dec. 6, 2013

The fusion operatic music — the incorporation of western style opera singing and music, American jazz and improvisation, North Indian classical singing and tabala — is what is takes the whole act of Arjuna’s Dilemma to another level.

The Himalayan Times, about Arjuna's Dilemma - Sept. 11, 2016

I have yet to come across a better amalgamation of Western and Eastern musical traditions that incorporate both vocals and instrumentals.

Kurchi Dasgupta, The Kathmandu Post, about Arjuna's Dilemma - Sept. 12, 2016

One of the most exciting events in Kathmandu’s cultural calendar.

Nepali Times, about Arjuna's Dilemma - Sept. 1, 2016

One can take away a lot of things from THE LARAMIE PROJECT and one of the most important is that “hate is not the way”. For Matthew, it may be his sexuality and for many in Nepal, it can range from sexuality, caste, class, sex and more!

Lex Limbu, about The Laramie Project - March 7, 2015

But there’s common ground to be found in musical improvisation, which is at the heart of both Indian classical music and jazz. The Indian singer, tabla player, and jazz saxophonist each use their respective improvisatory traditions to reach for the ecstatic, the sublime, and the terror that make up the emotional world of this work.

J. Cuomo, about Arjuna's Dilemma - Sept. 2, 2016

The power of creating a parallel world on an empty stage is extraordinary. Every time I witness theater, I carry souls of distant strangers who showed me their souls and became a part of my own. I don't know if ever I will be able to see a One World Theatre play again or remotely affect the magnificent world they create by doing theatre.

Neeraj Murthy, about Anna in the Tropics - Feb. 11, 2017

"It’s better to carry a hill of sorrows than a corpse of memories."

Sunita, about Deurali Daandi - Jan. 14, 2023