In front of a house in India, 16 year old Tina learns the ancient art of kolam from her grandmother, the creation of elaborate patterns with rice powder, in preparation for a man she has never met. In front of a house in Canada, Tina`s cousin Tommy, sits in a tree, trying to make sense of his heritage. As the stories of Tina and Tommy become more intertwined, a pattern of quiet rebellion and enduring love between generations and cultures emerges.

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Playwright Sunil Kuruvilla earned an MA in creative writing from the University of Windsor, and a MFA from the Yale School of Drama. His plays have been commissioned and developed at New York Theatre Workshop, The Joseph Papp Public Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and Portland Center Stage. He has also written for television. Rice Boy had its Canadian premiere at the Canadian Stage Company’s Berkeley Street Theatre in Toronto in the spring of 2003. Kuruvilla won two duMaurier Arts awards recognizing Canada’s best one-act plays. A Canadian of East Indian descent, Kuruvilla lives in Waterloo, Ontario.

"a witty, cross-cultural script...particularly charming in it presentation of a contemporary Indian family, its exoticism viewed with real affection and presented with real romance.... A lovely fairy-tale-like story." —The New York Times