Dubey’s daughter Ira, who is the production’s assistant director and plays the lead woman protagonist, Mridula, says, “A good play’s hallmark is that after it ends, the audience still wants more. Nothing in Wedding Album is black or white. Each character has ambiguities and some tracks are unresolved.”
As Ira coordinates actor dates and gleans Dubey’s tips scribbled on a sheet with diligent professionalism, her mother’s shout—“Action”—instantly transforms her into a small-town girl with pre-marital anxieties. “It’s difficult to juggle, but the ‘warm-up’— a backstage ritual in which actors form a circle and pray minutes before the curtain rises—takes away my headaches related to production such as lights, sounds and other nitty-gritties,” she says.

A day after the premiere, we ask Dubey about the response to Wedding Album. “It was a packed theatre. The audience was crackling with laughter that had Girish, who flew in for the premiere from Bangalore, return with ample glee,” she says.
Dubey is now gearing for a countrywide showcase with her team in Chennai, Delhi, Chandigarh, Bangalore and Hyderabad till July. Quiz her on what after Wedding Album and she says, “Maybe a musical or a period play. I am a restless director. I can’t stick to one genre, but which ever it is, the focus will always be on relationships.”