Dial M for Motherhood

Koel Purie Rinchet's play Mummy's Dead, Long Live Mummy is a dark comedy about motherhood that hits the spot

- Suhani Singh

As Koel Purie Rinchet waited for her debut novel to be published and then waited again on the sets of Zoya Akhtar’s The Archies, in which she plays Betty’s mother Alice Cooper, she found herself with an undervalued luxury—time. “The long breaks away from family, my child and being away from the routine of having to organise house or social life [while shooting] led to periods where I could just sit and create,” she says. The result is that the actor and author has added two new labels—playwright and theatre producer—to her resume with the dark comedy Mummy’s Dead, Long Live Mummy. After premiering in Paris in March this year, Koel joined hands with Ira Dubey’s Lila Natak Company to do a three-city run in India. The play will soon head to London.