ACT is staging India's epic Ramayana for the whole month, with 2 performances each day on weekends. Adapted and Created by Yussef El Guindi and Stephanie Timm
Direction by Sheila Daniels and Kurt Beattie. Not a good idea nor an easy task to convert it to a play of reasonable length with limited actors. Very messy, too many plots, animals, super beings, hard to portrait on stage. Probably better shown in a movie. The current adaptation has practically no stage set. Costume is not heavy enough to disguise the actors. Since each of them play many roles, it's easy to get confused. As far as the story goes, the characters are either perfect, or evil. Nothing in between. There's no character development at all. Everyone is idealized. Anyway, not a play I enjoy.
