Dear Saligaonkars
When I was residing in Saligao I used to organise konkani Tiatrs on the church
stage. I gave chance to many young people who had never been to the stage.. I
had all the co operation of our saligao dynamic artists as well as from the
church Navhind times always gave the short write up thanks to Ormel Tipri from
casa Tipri who did this on his own. r. There were many other people who took
active interest in my tiatr. One was Late Julie Azavedo who not only allowed us
to us her house but used to be a dynamic critic. . The second person was one
Sebestian de Souza from Muddavaddi. He was popularly called Tallo who would be
in the prime seat at the time of rehearsal ,would help us in correcting the
cantos of the tiatrs, help us with side songs. He had written a big book of
songs which he would give to our artist and train them. The first person to
help me stage my first show at the church stage was Fr.Simplicio Fernandes the
brother of present vicar of saligao. I cannot forget Fr. Valladares and also
Mr.Everest Fernandes.. We had great artists. Francis Maedeus Lobo, Emy
Sequeira, Dominic Picky, Late Roque, Pricilla Sequeira, Anton Ruzai Paes, Luis
De Mello, Thomas Andrade. Merwin Franco, His parents , Fiona Dias and above
all Sambu Bau Bandekar etc. But there were others who were back stage like
Luis domingo Dias and Santos who saw to the setting of the stage and prompting.
I remember one or two times our great scribe Daniel De souza singing a solo or
two. With my artist encouragement I was able to put up a tiatr in 1984 at the
Kala Acdemy tiatr competition and got second prize. Francis lobo and Emy
Sequeira got best actor actress award. It was our first attempt and we did it.
But what is hurting me is people who are great journalist do not feel to
mention our names in any of their writings. I got the second prize from Goa
academy for my tiatr Mummy maka vengent dor.I had presented the script for the
competition and stood second. The same tiatr was staged in London by our goan
group. Our saligaokar in London acted in this tiatr. Do you know who she is ?
Ida de Souza. She once lived in the house where presently Orlinda Sequeira
lives. (Sonarbhatt, three houses from mine) They had three four shows and
brought out a DVD.I do not think any one from saligao know about this.Many of
our great scribes who are aware of my work are hesitant to mention in their
great writings .
Albert de Souza
Sonarbhatt, Saligao, Goa
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