Pierrot's Troupe

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Pierrot's Troupe is a theatre group based in New Delhi, India, which was formed in 1989. The group performs original plays in Hindi, Urdu and English. Pierrot's troupe has performed more than 2000 plays touring throughout India, and has staged its dramas in the US, Dubai and UK.{{cite web|url=http://www.buzzintown.com/artistes--type/artist--pierrots-troupe/id--156.html |title=Pierrots Troupe |publisher=Buzzintown India |access-date=2010-06-26}}

Pierrot's Troupe is led by playwright and director M. Sayeed Alam, who has written and directed all of their plays, and also acts in most of them.{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/metroplus/article1718068.ece |title=Play it right |newspaper=The Hindu |date=22 April 2011 }} He has been described as "a pioneer of unconventional and fresh theatre in India".{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/article2279466.ece |title=From backstage |newspaper=The Hindu |date=13 December 2007}} Alam has a PhD in International Politics from Aligarh Muslim University. He is the author of a book, and has published 17 research papers.

Their plays are critically acclaimed as well as popularly well received.{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/article1409060.ece |title=Close to cloud nine |newspaper=The Hindu |date=3 March 2008}}{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/article942281.ece |title=Friday Review : Sons of Hindustan |newspaper=The Hindu |date=10 December 2010}} Some of their most popular plays include Ghalib in New Delhi (Hindi comedy),{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/article1461201.ece |title=Ghalib in Chennai! |newspaper=The Hindu |date=2 February 2008}} Mohan se Mahatma (Hindi),{{cite news |title=The transition to Bapu |url=https://www.dailypioneer.com/2017/vivacity/the-transition-to-bapu.html |work=The Pioneer |date=11 July 2017 |language=en}} Cut Cut Cut (Hindi comedy), Big B (English comedy),{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/article2272281.ece |title=Friday Review : When Big B just speaks `Hinglish' |newspaper=The Hindu |date=27 April 2007}} Maulana Azad (Urdu monologue), K. L. Saigal (Hindi musical), Ghalib (Urdu musical),{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/article1435544.ece |title=Friday Review : Many facets of the man |newspaper=The Hindu |date=5 September 2008}} Massage (Hindi comedy), 1947 (Urdu), Chacha Chakkan in Action (Hindi and Urdu), Letters of Ghalib (Urdu), {{Transliteration|ur|Lal quile ki aakhri mushaera}} (Urdu), and Sons of Babur.

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Their productions have included Indian theatre, cinema and television actors including Tom Alter, Rakesh Bedi, Saleem Shah, Simple Kaul, Uday Chandra, Chander Khanna, Hareesh Chhabra, {{IMDb name|10289198|Vibhav Srivastava}} Vishnu Sharma,{{cite magazine |url=http://news.outlookindia.com/item.aspx?679159 |title=Theatre Lovers, Get Ready to Tickle Your Funny Bone |magazine=Outlook India |date=11 April 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006163447/http://news.outlookindia.com/item.aspx?679159 |archive-date=6 October 2011 }}