Hi Fred,
Your's is a quick, great review of the Konkani play "Tum Khuim Asa?"
from the Kala Academy competition. I felt the community spirit was alive
and kicking right through the performance. The narrative took to task
some Goan attitudes, but also provided possible alternatives to some of
our current ills. It had everything from modern mobile phones to the
solar cooker... and how effective these would be in certain
circumstances. I saw Roland Martins (GoaCan) watching it quite
seriously, with Alexyz and Salil Konkar (Moving Images) in the same row.
There were several others too... elite or otherwise. And that reflects
tiatr today (as shown and seen), whatever one may feel or say... about
it, there is some sort of an equaliser at play, to bring together all
sorts of people to the theatre through tiatr... the medium being the
mother-tongue. You heard the frequent applause when someone came across
an interesting piece of dialogue... and not merely the comic songs (as
in a normal tiatr situation). Could be the mixed Catholic-Hindu audience.
Thanks for the candid pictures of the tiatr, which in fact had the
largest cast, and the charming flower show brought all of them on stage
together... and some at the fish market... with Abolem and Kukut ruling
the roost. I can't believe that such crowd scenes are possible in any
tiatr. Kudos to Mario Fernandes for the "global" perspective, to
director Shirish Naik and Fr Santan, parish priest of Pomburpa, for
motivating all of them.
2011/9/21 Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
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Talk to him well, he's a Global Goan
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