{"id":5508,"date":"2014-06-05T23:19:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T03:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=5508"},"modified":"2024-08-12T11:27:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T15:27:46","slug":"arun-lakra","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/arun-lakra\/","title":{"rendered":"Arun Lakra"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Arun Lakra is an eye surgeon and writer living in Calgary, Alberta. He pursued undergraduate studies at McGill University and the University of Calgary prior to completing his medical degree and residency in ophthalmology at the University of Toronto. His writing includes plays, screenplays and a non-fiction work on laser eye surgery.<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2014.
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Publisher’s Synopsis (from its website)<\/h4>\n

Theo has been named Time Magazine<\/em>\u2019s Luckiest Man Alive. For twenty consecutive years he has successfully bet double or nothing on the Super Bowl coin toss. And he\u2019s getting ready to risk millions on the twenty-first when he is confronted by Cynthia, a young woman who claims to have figured out his mathematical secret. Stem-cell researcher and professor Dr. Guzman is on the verge of a groundbreaking discovery. She\u2019s also learned that one of her students has defied probability to get all 150 multiple-choice questions wrong on his genetics exam, but it\u2019s not until he shows up to her office in the middle of the night that she\u2019s able to determine if it\u2019s simply bad luck. The two narratives intertwine like a fragment of DNA to examine the interplay between logic and metaphysics, science and faith, luck and probability. Belief systems clash, ideas mutate, and order springs from chaos. With razor-sharp wit and playful language, Sequence<\/em> asks, in our lives, in our universe, and even in our stories, does order matter?<\/p>\n

Awards and Honours<\/h4>\n

2014 Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama-Albert Literary Awards<\/a> (Writers’ Guild of Alberta) (Winner)
\n2013\u00a0 Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding New Play<\/a> (Winner)
\n2013\u00a0 Woodward\/Newman Drama Award (Winner)
\n2013\u00a0 Calgary Theatre Critics Award for Best New Script (Winner)
\n2012\u00a0 Stage International Script Competition<\/a> (Finalist)
\n2011\u00a0 Alberta Playwriting Competition (Winner)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Publisher Playwrights Canada Press<\/a><\/p>\n

Arun Lakra’s personal website<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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