A Fine Balance

The beloved novel, reimagined for the stage.

Anosh Irani’s adaptation of Rohinton Mistry’s beloved novel unfolds during India’s 1975 Emergency, when democratic freedoms were suspended and the machinery of the state reached deeply into everyday life.

In a cramped Bombay apartment, four unlikely companions are drawn together: Dina Dalal, a widowed seamstress determined to remain independent; Maneck Kohlah, a student newly arrived from the mountains; and two tailors, Ishvar and his nephew Omprakash, who have fled caste violence in their village.

As the pressures of a country in upheaval close in, their fragile household becomes a refuge. Inside that tightening vise, something unexpectedly luminous emerges. Devastating and astonishing in equal measure, this new adaptation by Anosh Irani – a Governor General’s Literary Award finalist and recipient of the Writers’ Trust Engel Findley Award – brings Mistry’s epic story vividly to the stage.

Featuring: Husein Madhavji, Anand Rajaram, Zorana Sadiq, Siddharth Sharma, Sugith Varughese, and Ben Yoganathan.

Accolades for the novel A Fine Balance:

• Giller Prize, 1995

• Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, 1996

• Oprah’s Book Club, November 2001

• Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, 1996

• Booker Prize Shortlisted Finalist, 1996