Event Dates – May 2025
\nVenue – Arkansas New Play Festival
\nAdapted by – Nina McConigley and Matthew Spangler
\nCultural Consultant – Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti<\/b><\/p>\n
Event Website<\/a> Synopsis from Event Website – Artistic Statement: Cowboys and East Indians is co-adapted by Nina McConigley and Matthew Spangler from Nina\u2019s award-winning collection of short stories by the same name. It follows the Sen family \u2013 the parents immigrated from India to Wyoming, where their daughter, Lucky, is born and raised \u2013 as they grapple with expectations, belonging, and the realities of rural life. It’s about family and trying to build community and a sense of identity in a place where you don\u2019t see a reflection of yourself. Event Dates – May 2025 Venue – Arkansas New Play Festival Adapted by – Nina McConigley and Matthew Spangler Cultural Consultant – Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti Event Website Broadway World Colorado Synopsis from Event Website – Artistic Statement: Cowboys and East Indians is co-adapted by Nina McConigley and Matthew Spangler from Nina\u2019s award-winning collection of short stories by the same name. It follows the Sen family \u2013 the parents immigrated from India to Wyoming, where their daughter, Lucky, is born and raised \u2013 as they grapple with expectations, belonging, and the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[208,209,199,206,211,210],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-direct","tag-cowboys","tag-east-indians","tag-immigration","tag-play","tag-second-generation","tag-wyoming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1259,"href":"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions\/1259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sukanyac.com\/chakra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBroadway World Colorado<\/a><\/p>\n
\nThis play is not only a rare exploration of immigrant and second-generation experiences in rural communities, it subverts our image of the West. Especially at a time when many people have firm ideas about places and people, the laughter and heart in this play offer a fresh and unexpected perspective on the contemporary American West and the lives and communities that make up this region. \u2013Leean Kim Torske, DCPA Director of Literary Programs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"