Hi Albert, While one can understand the pain felt for credit we believe was not given to us, let's face it: things done in the distant past are also forgotten.
Write some more tiatrs and stage them, and you surely won't get ignored by the media. FN Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490 On 30 September 2010 10:54, Albert Desouza <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- > This message comes via the Google Groups "Saligao-Net" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/saligao-net?hl=en > Please post regularly to keep the e-village active! -- This message comes via the Google Groups "Saligao-Net" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/saligao-net?hl=en Please post regularly to keep the e-village active!
