2025 Season OTR New Play Reading Series

Tea for Toofi

April 9, 2025

by Ravi Kapoor

OTR New Play Reading Series

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This new play will be presented as a reading. Readings are an essential part of the play development process. We are proud to offer this as part of our On The Radar (OTR) New Works Program that aims to support the creation of diverse new stories by emerging U.S. playwrights. Click here to learn more about OTR.

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ABOUT THE SHOW:

Based on Molière’s Tartuffe, Tea for Toofi by Ravi Kapoor is a mad-cap farce set in 1980s Orange County, CA and tells the story of a retired computer engineer who invites a Hindu priest into his home to put his godless family to rights. But the priest may have more than spiritual matters on his mind. A play about having too much “stuff”.

From the playwright: “I wanted to write a play that poked fun at how, in our desperate search for higher meaning, we lose sight of what we already have that might be of greater value. And I also wanted to explore how one deals with the moral burden of being wealthy; the shame, the guilt, the pride, and the vulnerability.”

NOTE: This production contains some sexually suggestive language.

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT:

Ravi Kapoor

Ravi Kapoor is an actor/writer/director based in LA but hailing from Liverpool, UK. He wrote and directed the feature Four Samosas currently on Hulu, and he directed and co-wrote the feature Miss India America, also on Hulu. Some of the plays he has written and directed include Oh Sweet Sita, which played in both London and Toronto and was named a top ten play of the year by London Time Out. He was a series regular on the shows Gideon’s Crossing and Crossing Jordan.