TAG Condoles Philomena's Death
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Tiatr Academy of Goa has condoled the death of veteran tiatr artiste
Philomena Braz e Crasto who expired on 15th February 2011. She was 77
years old.
Philomena Braz e Crasto played a very important role in bringing the
tiatr stage to higher standard. She was one of the few female artistes,
well educated, who ventured to act on tiatr stage in spite of social
taboos at that time. She was responsible to motivate many female
artistes to follow her on the path of development of tiatr.
Completing her education she joined National Textile Corporation Mills,
Dadar, Bombay where she had a long stint of dedicated service as a
Telephone Operator. In fact, she was noticed by famous singer of Konkani
stage Alfred Rose who gave her the first break in his play entitled
"Zotkaxi Dorji". From then onwards there was no turning back to
Philomena Braz. She worked with topmost directors of her time like J. P.
Souzalin, Prem Kumar, M. Boyer, C. Alvares, Remy Colaco and others.
Although she excelled in acting character roles, yet she was very
popular among the tiatr audience as a natural comedienne.
She also wrote and directed her own tiatr "Axeachi Doxea" which was
staged all over Mumbai, Poona and Goa. She was honoured by Kala Academy
Goa and Tiatr Academy Goa for her invaluable contribution to tiatr stage.
In her death tiatr has lost a sincere and dedicated artiste. Let her
soul rest in peace
Victor de Sa
Member Secretary
