Subject: Dubai Tiatr Lovers Taken for a Ride
The same organizer has staged a tiatr last season, whereby he had issued tickets with seat nos. but when we went there we could not find our seats. These seats were booked in advance. I questioned Mr.Rafael, he blantly said you can occupy (pointing) to vacant seats (which did not have any seat nos.) These seats (rows) were on the extreme side of the stage. Since he could not give our seats and we did not want to make any trouble we took what was available. These things happens when Mr. Rafael has a sell out. "Poixe toklek martat - mijeas choddta" Regarding Roseferns show, which I had seen in GOA, does not have much to write about and it is below expectation from a great writer. RockyF Message: 12 Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:30:14 -0700 (PDT) From: cedrico dacosta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Goanet] Dubai Tiatr Lovers Taken for a Ride To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Dubai Tiatr Lovers Taken for a Ride Last thursday the much awaited first tiatr of the season after Easter was presented in Dubai. The large Goan tiatr lovers in Dubai eagerly await the coming of any tiatr group to Dubai as it not only gives them a tiatr to watch, but also the whole event becomes a social meeting point with tiatr lovers from as far as Abu Dhabi and Fujeirah comming to Dubai to be part of the tiatr. Last week the much hyped, self proclaimed, 'Xekdeancho Raza'(king of centuries), Roseferns was brought to Dubai with his latest tiatr, Maim Tuzo Upkari Hanv (Mother, i am indebted to you). The organisers did much publicity for the tiatr and tiatr lovers thronged the Al Nasr Leisureland in large numbers. Much to the dismay of the tiatr lovers...the tiatr tickets were sold out within a few minutes and around a hunderd and twenty five people were denied entry. The tiatr was staged in the Nashwan Hall, adjoining the Al Nasr complex. Although the tickets this time were highly priced at AED 50 and Aed 60(VVIP) respectively. There were more AED 60 ticket rows than the AED 50 ones, and there in exposed the unscruplous attitude of the organisers to make as much money as possible, by taking the tiatr lovers for a ride. That was point 1. Outside the theatre, the eager tiatr lovers being denied the privilege to view the tiatr started growing restless. And to add insult to the injury, the organisers held in their pockets bundles of unsold tickets which were distributed to their friends as and when they came by and although the organisers announced to the public waiting outside that the hall was jampacked and no place was available even to stand, one by one the organisers would take their friends and families inside the theatre at regular intervals. Further the arrogance of the organisers, who had already recovered their monies and also made the profit much before even the opening chorus was sung, were acting very high handed and one Rafael who is the main organiser also rudely announced to the Al Nasr gate guard to close the gates and not to allow anyone inside the theatre as there was no place, the same Rafael later almost took inside nearly 25 of his friends one by one in liasion with the gate guards. Once inside the tiatr was a huge disappointment. The first appearance was horrible as there were not even proper lighting, sound and curtains or a neat stage set up. The tiatr from the pen of a centuries master like Roseferns lacked a basic story line and the talented cast like comedial sally, Tari and Peter de Benaulim were totally wasted in their badly written roles. The hall being jam packed the crowd grew restless and since the main stage where the tiatr was going on didnt have much to offer, the back stage, ie. the bar was making brisk business much to the delight of the organisers. And when the cup of cheer flowed freely so also the expletives and abuses from the angry tiatr fans flowed. There was also a huge security concern as the hall being jam packed had only one entry and exit point. The crowds went home a disappointed lot, with the tiatr and the attitude of the organisers. I do not wish to criticise the organisers as they have given us some good tiatrs in the past, but just a request that success corrupts and Goan tiatr lovers will not subscribe to such utter nonsense in the future. Also, since Dubai Goans are used to having entertained by master tiatrists in the past, this tiatr was no value for money at all and was a sheer waste of time and patience. We must not set such a bad example of bad organising and bad performance and then charge the public heavily for somehting that is not worth the amount. The organisers of this tiart showed that they cared less, that they didnt care of Goans were accomodated or not or if the sentiments of the Goan tiatr lovers were hurt by their act of acting greedily only to look at the aounts, profits and not look at the entetaining aspect of the tiatr and the pains the true tiatr lovers took to spend their weekend at the tiatr. I hope better sense prevails in the future as more tiatrs are lined up to be staged in Dubai in 2008. Kind regards Cedric da Costa Dubai ********************
