so far so good!
the play is actually pretty ok, it turns out. despite me saying all kind of things from ‘DO NOT come to watch it’ to ‘where’s my brown paper bag that goes over my head?’, it has turned out pretty good, and miracle of miracles, funny even. i must say, honestly, and this is mean, i thought this play was disastrous. a week ago no one knew most of their lines, the cues were all horribly off, and the humour had just turned stale. personally, this kind of farcical, slap stick, indu dharmasena-ish humour doesn’t do it for me. the only time stuff like that works out is if and when everything is slick and perfect, like in caught in the net. i was imagining bad reviews, people trashing it, and my friends running from me in embarrassment.
opening night went alarmingly well, everyone remembered their lines (or managed to pretend to anyway), everyone managed to be audible and coherent (only by speaking so slow and so loud that they felt like retards) and the audience laughed and responded well to the play. my friends liked it very much, and knowing that most of them have alarmingly good taste in theatre and the likes, this is quite a compliment. i got three lots of flowers! one lot from one of my best friends nuksh, one lot from two other friends who came to watch; banana and the-r-sha, and the others…from anonymous-till-this-morning. very touching.
today too was a good day for the play. despite an embarrassing incident involving me and some red roses, it went off well.
i went mad about a week ago, and during a crazy shopping trip to MC (after ages) with my friend nabila, who is my sister of sorts since recently, bought the DVDs of the disney beauty and the beast, the hunchback of notre dame and all the lion kings. i watched the beauty and the beast last morning, and i type this just after i finished watching the hunchback. beauty and the beast has to be my all time favourite disney. its so beautifully animated, and the music is so phenomenal. the hunchback has personal significance because we did a marvelous medley from it for our huge choir production this year, and we had great fun mastering it. we did a fantastic job with it, if i may say so myself, harmonizing for the ‘god help the outcasts’ solo, looking like we pray everyday for the latin prayer bits and dancing around like crazy for ‘topsy turvy day’. this collection will not be complete without my second favourite disney, the little mermaid, the old ones; snow white and the seven dwarves, the sleeping beauty, cinderella, and of course jungle book as someone reminded me, pocahontas and alladin. and all the winnie the poohs.
more later…
uhmm the play was promising but it could have definitely been much much better overall….There was a lotta talent but the acting wasnt sharp enough which meant the the humour wasnt delivered at it’s best…I also personally thought that several actors needed to work on their diction and clarity and that they also lacked stage presence at several occasions…
I was warned but hell it wasnt as bad as u made it upto be
:p but judging from the fact that most of the cast had pretty much obvious talent it was rather a pity that the best in everybody wasnt brought out properly…
An overall enjoyable n youthful performance though…
Comment by Savi — September 11, 2005 @ 8:57 pm
I thought you guys did a good job, especially with the music. Not at all as bad as you made it out to be
As for the cartoons, just stay away from Snow White or you’ll find yourself overcome with the urge to throttle the silly little chit.
Comment by Juniper — September 13, 2005 @ 7:42 am
i personally thought that the acting wasn’t bad at all. though the plot really did drag a bit, one must remember that this is a original play by a group of brave young people who are mostly amateurs (if i am wrong please correct me). we should encourage more such plays. until we have several directors continually making a steady stream of plays we will not have a viable colombo theatre with occasional really great play. nor will our actors get the necessary experience.
so congrats for a job well done!
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