Theatre Review : Classic Milds
Recently saw this play at Prithvi which was a collection of six short plays written by famous playwrights. The range of themes was good, varying from the highly funny and over-the top to a nerve-raising one and from emotional drama to a social statement. The acting was top of the class and the entire experience was as one of the better plays I have watched.
Its a one person act of a husband giving a public lecture on 'the harmful effects of tobacco' at the insistence of his wife. He however veers onto himself, talking about his own failures and his unhappy life with his wife and children. It was well acted and you feel for the husband, but personally I found it too sad to like it.
Peter the expert "married-women-seducer" is lecturing the audience about the methods he uses for his conquests. Quite an innovative method he uses! Plus he shows a live demonstration also of how successfully it works everytime :)! However, this time the unexpected happens and gives a nice twist to the story (and to him thereafter!!). Very funny and entertaining play, a masterpiece!
The play is made up of scenes in a tea room at some railway station in England, over one year and mirroring three different love stories over this time. The tea house owner and the station master, the waitress and the snack boy and a married man and woman who had met up in the tea house itself a year back. All the three love stories are unique and go over a different course over the year. Interesting and touches the heart....
This one was quite a light play with so many deeper meanings, it takes time to absorb it completely and easily. An unknown person checks into a hospital and is happy to just stay there, talk to the nurses, paint and live a relaxed uncomplicated life. This is however not acceptable to people around him and so he is sent back to where he came from, back to his family, back to reality.. Why?
This would be one of the most unnerving play I have ever seen! Still terrifies me everytime I think about it.
It is a three act play and shows the interaction of a torturer with a husband and then with his wife (with just references to their son who is also being held prisoner). The background of why the family is being tortured is not given and you never know what the context of the play is.
The torturer is actually a suave man, who just talks to the man and his wife as if it were a normal conversation. There is no torture shown in the play. Its just the acting and the dialogues of the torturer which spook you because of the easeness with which they are delivered but for the horrific meaning of his words. Its an eye opener to how bad treatment of political prisoners can go. A very well written hard-hitting play, which touches where it is supposed to!!
Thank God for the funny finish to the whole evening! This one is hilarious and completely over the top. Two guests at a hotel are disturbed when there is a fire in the building. The complete non-chalance attitude of the guests as well as the firemen who come to control the fire just gets you into splits! One of the fireman lands up with a guitar (to practice it in peace which he does not get at home) and the other lights up his cigarette from the flames of the fire. Very very funny.
P.S. For some of the plays, I could not find proper complete links, so just added in what I could find.
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