Bye Bye Bombay

“Bye Bye Bombay is successful as a journey; through an intense multi-sensory experience, Yeates brings us with her halfway around the world and back.” – New York Theater.com

Bye Bye Bombay is a multimedia adventure to Bollywood and beyond! Join Gauri and her puppet guides as she dodges rickshaws, Russian dancers and lecherous directors. A foreigner lost in a maze of masala, will this sulky runaway learn more than just the art of crossing roads in India?

Cara Yeates performer and writer of Bye Bye Bombay went to India to write a play. She didn’t expect to start working in Bollywood. On her first night in Bombay, a Bollywood tout scouted Cara to appear in a film. Within weeks Cara had landed an agent, acquired a work visa and acted in a Bollywood feature. Yeates extended her one-month trip to four. During her time in India Yeates worked on a range of projects, from guest starring in a Hindi TV show shot in a castle in the desert to selling hair loss cream on the shopping channe...
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