04/12/2024
A regular morning in an urban flat - the sound of phone calls, pronouncements from the vegetable seller, the garbage guy at the door, the pressure cooker going off - and the small space pulsating with the rhythm of cacophony. In this flat breathe two humans, Uma and Urvashi. Uma is a young, 20-something, college educated domestic worker while Urvashi, a virtual assistant by night and a sales executive by day, is her 20-something employer. They share a relationship full of mutual care, gossip, and interdependence and this morning is the 2.5-year anniversary of their employment contract. Uma announces that from today, she will not clean the bathroom, sending Urvashi into a tizzy.
How will Urvashi, who trained to be a teacher, respond to this demand? Will Uma be able to control the narrative? How will rules of caste, power, and hierarchy affect the negotiation? Will their relationship grow or will it wilt under the strain of history?
Set in a society with high levels of unemployment, Mornings of Uma and Urvashi is a drama that seeks to discover and uncover the human relationship between the served and the server and is layered with themes of egalitarianism, desire, imposition and free will.
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