Tanya Shaffer’s “Baby Taj”: A “Delectable New Play”
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 10.05.05 | 4:46 AM ET
Travel writer and playwright Tanya Shaffer’s 
latest effort, Baby Taj, earned a rave review from the Robert Hurwitt in Thursday’s San Francisco Chronicle. The play, which is partly based on her travels through India, is “a witty and probing culture clash between free-thinking modernity and long-established traditions that discovers degrees of freedom within cultural restrictions and incapacitating constraints in freedom,” Hurwitt writes.
Shaffer, who chronicled her African journeys in her 2003 book “Somebody’s Heart Is Burning,” spoke with Sam Hurwitt about her writing and her love of travel in Sunday’s Chronicle.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
Sramana Mitra 10.09.05 | 8:56 PM ET
Indeed, a delightful play tackling extreme liberal issues like single motherhood by choice, but packaged smartly in a fast-paced comedy, light and refreshingly un-bitter ...
A great reminder to writers tackling traditionally “angry” issues, that romance and humour are essential ammunition, when presenting heavy topics.