Indian Cowboy

Written by and featuring Zaraawar Mistry
Created in collaboration with Kathleen Sullivan
Music composed and performed live by Keith Lee
Performed by candlelight

"Outstanding experimental theater work" --- Star Tribune's Best of Twin Cities theater, 2006

"...Laced with insight and leavened with humor..." -Pioneer Press

"...truly excellent storytelling woven with a fine balance of humor and compassion." -Minneapolis Observer

Zaraawar Mistry's critically-acclaimed Indian Cowboy premiered at Mixed Blood Theater in 2006. It has been performed at Dreamland Arts, at Stages Repertory Theatre in Houston and at Asia Society in New York.

Indian Cowboy, the tale of a young man who comes to America, is a stranger-in-a-strange-land story, but with a twist. The fictional protagonist of the story is Gayomar Katrak. For Gayomar, his whole life is unfamiliar territory. Found as an infant by the side of the road by three brothers from the minority Parsi community of India, his own heritage is uncertain. And though he travels around America and even back to India, no place really ever feels like home. Mistry’s compelling tale traces the often humorous steps and missteps of the young man to his new place of awakening. It is at once a personal story of an immigrant's experience in America, and a universal tale of an individual looking for a place in the world.

Reviews of Indian Cowboy
Reviews from the Pioneer Press and Star Tribune are now in the newspapers' archives and available by contacting Zaraawar
Minneapolis Observer

Articles about Zaraawar Mistry
Pusle of the Twin Cities
Asia Society Interview

Email: z@dreamlandarts.com