Dipti Mehta is such a fine performer, she embodies all the characters with dignity and humor as they work to hide their own resolve to their fate and their place in society.
Holli Harms, Front Row Center (5 STARS)
Mehta’s performance is a pinnacle of precision in movement, character transitions, and eye contact.
Celine Cardineau, Montreal Theatre Hub
A masterpiece shouting with humanity, absolutely everything in this creation is sublime!
Cyriel Truchi-Tardivel, Eklectik Media review
Honour seems to stare back at us, as though to ask, “Hey, American, does this makeyou uncomfortable?” You bet it does, and we’re the better for it.
Time Out NYC (5 STARS)
Honour: Confessions of a Mumbai Courtesan, is ambitious, smart, and a master class in character work.
Andrea Warner, The Georgia Straight
I don’t often stay for the talkback sessions after a show but this one was fascinating and added immeasurably to the tremendous pleasure I got from the performance. Dipti Mehta is, as well as a scientist and a social activist, a very fine storyteller
Jo Ledingham, joledingham.ca
Dipti Mehta is simply astonishing. Nothing like it have I ever experienced on stage anywhere, anytime. Quite an adventure it truly is: one can only sit back and absorb its inspired invention.
Baird Blackstone, Broken Leg Reviews
While by no means does Dipti Mehta’s one-woman show shy away from the more brutal aspects of its story, it also reveals itself to be full of life, humor, and beauty. This is the show’s great triumph.
Theater is easy
Dipti is making India proud
Times of India
Dipti Mehta is determined to make her voice heard, even if it’s not always the voice people have in mind
Vancouver Sun
Dipti brilliantly employs a fun and poignant approach while touching a serious subject set in today’s time, making it a complete package for an audience that has probably never experienced such theatre before.
Darpan
Provocative, human, funny! What makes Honour most unusual as a solo piece, in addition to its subject matter, is that its performer is able to tell its tale by using her considerable dance skills to make each character entertainingly larger then life.
Theater’s Leiter Side (4 STARS)
Dipti Mehta’s one-woman show could hardly be described as dark or pessimistic. Mehta handles the grim aspects with courage and sensitivity
John Jane, Review Vancouver
Presenter and Audience Quotes
I was quite fortunate to host a beautiful and provocative performance of Dipti Mehta’s Honour at the University of Arizona in 2017. Dipti was eminently professional to work with; the logistics of marketing, arranging for media interviews, and working with the stage crew was a breeze. Dipti gave two women’s empowerment workshops, one on campus with our Women’s Resource Center and the other at our local YWCA working with a Latina leadership group. Many participants reported that these were life-altering sessions where they were inspired to tap into personal resources for positive change. Dipti was charming, passionate, and generous, effortlessly connecting with a range of stakeholders including marginalized groups and donors and university administrators. She made time for everyone and so many of us were touched on a very personal level. It was a joy to work with Dipti, and I hope to host them again at the University of Arizona very soon.
William Paul Simmons. Professor-Gender and Women’s Studies. University of Arizona
Dipti is a wonderful collaborator and especially generous working in a campus environment. Her play HONOUR is a timely work that makes difficult but crucial topics accessible to contemporary audiences. We found Honour engaged our audience with the art and the issues.
Ted Altschuler, Director, Baruch Performing Arts Center, NYC
Dipti Mehta’s performance of “Honour: Confessions of a Mumbai Courtesan” was a highlight of Flato Markham Theatre’s 2017-18 Season. Profound and brilliant, Dipti deeply engaged our audience from the second she started the play to the very end of the post-show talk, for which all patrons, with no exception, stayed to share their experience. Epic.
Eric Lariviere, General Manager, Flato Markham Theater, Markham, Canada
MT space is an organization that tries to centralize marginalized, racialized, minoritized voices, stories and people through the work we present, and HONOUR did exactly that. It shared a perspective that a lot of people don’t realize exists. Presenting HONOUR has made me think about how to shape our seasons and create more space for women’s voices. I just want to say huge thank you to Dipti for creating this work and for opening doors for audience members to talk about this but also for other South Asian artists to be fearless.
Pam Patel, Artistic Director MT Space theater, Kitchener, Canada
HONOUR is a must-see. Dipti embodies the characters in her story so convincingly that you find yourself transported into their world wondering how one woman can be old, young, male, female, good, and bad.
Stephani Klemons (Associate Choreographer, HAMILTON)
HONOUR is Mysterious, logical, Tragic, Empathetic and Kind as life itself. It is a miracle how Dipti inhabits so many people in her, HONOUR in giving us this story allows us to enter another world and empathize.
Gloria Steinem
Dipti Mehta is a passionate performer. Her vibrant piece, HONOUR, has her living and acting out multiple roles. Funny, sad, educational, and fiery, HONOUR is a valuable example of theatre with social conscience.
Ashley Judd
Dipti is a one-woman force, actively speaking to the deep implications of the sex trade across multiple relationships, generations and nations. –
Carey Lovelace, Artistic Director, Loose Change Productions
Thought-provoking play about many social issues including women’s rights. Compelling, entertaining piece as well as provocative.
Frank Carucci, President, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club
Honour’s rendition of the many perspectives on the sex trade and the women in it was both concise and engrossing.
Ninotchka Rosca, human rights activist, AF3IRM NY Chapter
Deeply moving and truthful characterization of a subject that can rip the heart out of a human being
Stuart Perrin, author Little Sisters