What happens to a lifelong friendship when two ordinary men are ordered to do the unthinkable?
Find out in Guards at the Taj when it opens at The Art House Wyong this September.
Coming to Wyong courtesy of Riverside Theatre, this new dramedy about brotherhood, betrayal, and bloodshed, explores the mythology around the Taj Mahal.
Framed around two low-ranking guards with the dubious privilege of graveyard shift during the Taj’s construction, they spend their nights keeping the soon-to-be wonder of the world away from prying eyes.
Childhood friends, one idealistic dreamer Akkshey Caplash, and one stoic loyalist Idam Sondhi, they pass the long nights bickering and bantering, never allowing themselves a peek at what they’re protecting, until everything changes on the eve of the opening.
To ensure that nothing as marvellous is built again, the emperor orders his guards to carry out an unspeakable task.
Playing out across a series of pivotal moments from dusk until dawn, the story interweaves history with hearsay as it explores themes of beauty, power, resistance, and loyalty.
Featuring a heartbreakingly funny and relatable friendship tested and broken by extreme and brutal circumstances, enhanced all the more by incredible set, costume, and lighting design, Guards at The Taj is breakout theatre at its experimental best.
Popularised on the West End and having wowed Sydney theatregoers, audiences should not miss this rare chance to see this incredible new Australian take on the play.
Guards at The Taj opens at The Art House on Tuesday, September 10.