Two retired lecturers to stage Edward Albee’s ‘At Home at the Zoo’ in Hyderabad

The stage in Hyderabad gets bigger as two retired English literature lecturers step in with their debut production, At Home at the Zoo. The play combines Act I and Act II of The Zoo Story (1959) with Homelife (2004), the prequel Edward Albee wrote 45 years later.

The duo, Sarala Mahidhara and Navanita Lahiri, are former colleagues and friends from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Vivekananda College. After over a decade of retirement, and doing “nothing in terms of theatre,” they have rekindled a long-held passion by launching their theatre group, Derring Duo — a name that captures their exuberant, courageous spirit.