Here i am back blogging at last!!
I would like to share my first time experience on watching a play in a theatre...
Frankly speaking, i never was interested in watching plays... i keep hearing about 'Ranga shankara' in b'lore from the time i had been in here but never even thought of going to watch one of the performance!!
It was under compulsion of one of my friends that i decided to go for the play at last, we decided to go for 'Ungrateful man' it was a story from panchatantra... Did not want to go for a serious one ;)
Being used to movies, i was expecting similar ambience over there with all speakers hanging around (DTS, dolby n what not...)..... x no.of seats with y no.of rows!! but my imagination went wrong, it was a small amphitheatre WITH NO SPEAKERS.... oops what i thought and what it has turned out to be!! now started wondering about the acoustics n was doubtful whether i will be able to hear the dialogues properly r not....
Then came the final ring.... a man came with traditional drums, at the outset all the audience started tapping their feets (including me :) )... hmm... already started dancing to performers tunes!!
Then came two very cute kids, guess what they were the narrators of the play :) Their performance deserves appreciation... Then slowly all the characters came in n the play continued.... It was certainly a different experience, the co-ordination that was there in assembling the sets for each scene was nothing less than 100%.
The best part of the play was when bunch of kids posing themselves as monkeys.... well imagine the kind of atmosphere it wud have been.... all the chotoos posing as monkeys! doing what not on the stage.... The complete theatre was burst into laughter.... Kudos to the director!! Imagine how hard it is to get something out of kids.... oops!! The most difficult thing to get something is having a kid to do something which we ask them to do.... :) They were perfect!!
Altogether it was completely a new and wonderful experience for me... it was worth the bucks!! If you happen to get an opportunity to watch one, pl. don't miss it.... go at least once to feel the difference.
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Even I was a bit reluctant to pay visits to plays and my notion was toned down when I happened to go for a play about the French history. The lady of the play was stunningly a great performer and she sucked me into her, especially during emotional scenes. There were no kiddos as your play though. I was just wondering how much of efforts they would have put in rehearsing, especially the kids, to pledge the audience a visual feast. I really wished to see an Indian play then and you really augment that desire.
Applause to the kids on my behalf!!!!
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