" The Tale of Quaries, the Prince who Fails " will be staged by pirerrott's Troupe in April 2018 in new delhi and Bangalore. It is directed by Tom after assited by Dr. M Sayeed Alam. James Alter will play a lead role.

"A very witty and intelligent play….. the author already has the royality in her pocket…."

"A new genre in writing by Veena S Rao…. It's contemporary, it's Shakespeaream, it's witty, satirical and it's tragically comic. In the Bard's words, this would have been a tragedy of errors. Entertaining and sad, wait to see it on stage."

"An interesting take on a all still painful recent past involving Britain's Royal Family. Veena Rao uses her imagination cleverly to show that Shakespeare is still relevant when it comes to a good plot, even in the 21st centuary.

Veena S Rao is a retired officer of the Indian Administrative Service with a distinguished career in Karnataka and Government of India, She is a post –graduate in Political Science from the University of Jammu and Kashmir, and Department Studies from the University of Cambridge, UK. Before joining the IAS, she taught Political Science in Mount Camel College Bangalore.

She is an expert on development issues and goverence, particularly malnutrition and writes extensively in national and international publication. She works closely with the Government of Karnatka, the World Bank, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, and the Institute of Development studies, Sussex, U.K. Her novel, 'Charlotte's End' inspired by Daphne du Maurier's "Rebicca" was published in 2016.

Veena S Rao lives in Bangalore, India, and can be contacted through e-mail at nobel_6@hotmail.com.