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Contact us for further queries.During the British rule of India, fate throws together a diverse cast onto the stage of the San Souci Theater- Esther Leach, the Kohinoor of Bengal theater, James Barry, the theater manager facing bankruptcy, Alice Anderson the enchanting Englishwomen estranged from her husband, and Baboo Bustomchurn Addy, the dark Bengali actor infatuated with Alice Anderson and ready to kill for her.Yet, history has forgotten the cast that perished with the San Souci theater until it's discovered by Tony, a school boy in Calcutta, desperate to tell their story. Of an actress who burnt before a shocked audience. Of a dangerous relationship between a married English Women and a native Bengali actor. To help Tony is an effervescent Anglo-India beauty. She's mute. It was the end of innocence and the dawn of a glorious institution.
Unearth the secret behind the climb and fall of the greatest theatre in the country, kept hidden for the last 150 years, revealed to you through a schoolboy's adventure. Find out what happens when the boy who talks a lot meets the girl who's born mute- their love tells the story in this epic coming-of-age novel.
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