Like Dan, I too attended with my family. Meant to write about it and was going to go about it but Dan fore stole me. ;-)
I felt the play was fine. The social messages were strong. Anti caste, Anti corruption and very much in tune with the scenario of today where politicians mislead the masses and are re-elected time again and yet again even though in truth they are unworthy. The social scenario where the feudal system is crumbling and the social order is changing was well depicted. I also felt that the audience was more restrained (as befitting the audience of an English play and upper middle class pretensions as in "we are not amused") unlike a lively Konkani teatro audience which claps, cat calls, whistles, asks for encores and so on. Tomazinho deserves kudos for the fine work he has done. The lead ladies, as Dan says, were superb. The sets were great and the lighting did not leave any thing to complain about. Intentionally or not, the pig joke suited the present day's "barrao's" line of thinking (U know who I mean :-0 ) The comedian Santan who play the role of a deaf person was great and so was the bhatkar. On the whole the cast did very well and ought to be congratulated. Kala Mogi should keep up the good work and should be encouraged. Then there was the usual critic or two who found fault with the accent and the diction. But then this is India and as long as what was presented was understandable, and in good Indian English, I personally find nothing wrong at all. If Indian English is good enough for International call centres, then what is the problem. If Canada can have a Canadian English and Australia Australian English, Scotland and Ireland their own brand of English, then why not Indian English? Kala Mogi, Tomazinho and Irene, We look forward to seeing some more shows. Cheers -- Tony de Sa. tonydesa at gmail dot com M : +91 9975 162 897 Ph. : +91 832 2470 148 ^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v
