-By
High-Pot-In-Use-Tri-Angle
Chef
– Digvijay Savant
Asst.
Chef – Shivani Savant
The
play, Staged as part of The Times of India Kala Ghoda Arts Festival
at 7 pm on the 8th of February at the NGMA, premiered in
November at the CentreStage Festival at the NCPA and is back as part
of The Times of India Kala Ghoda Arts Festival 2012 in its endeavor
to perform at alternative spaces in Mumbai.
Make-ups
and Break-ups, Celebrations and Traditions, New Beginnings and Old
Ends... A lot can happen over a glass of wine, a bowl of soup,
platter of salad, some appetizers to go with the main course or a
sinful dessert!. Rather a lot happened over this six-course sumptuous
“conversational meal”. The play is divided into six short
pieces...
Beverages:
A dorky guy tries his hand at flirting with a woman in a night club.
Soup:
A woman getting a stranger to have a conversation with her former
lover over the phone in a restaurant.
Salad:
A couple role-play their break up in a cafe.
Appetizers:
women share more than a plate of pepper-garlic paneer
over a few drinks.
Main
course: Two men discuss
mid-life crisis at the local roadside Chinese thela.
And
last but defiantly Not the Least –
Desserts:
A
man and woman reconnecting after four decades.
These
snippets of interesting conversation provide a quirky perspective on
relationships and the association between food and relationships. The
production features a cast of six people who are highlighting the
bizarre nature of relationships and food through private
conversations that are happening in seemingly public places. The best
part is, we get to spend a delightful evening eavesdropping on these
interesting conversations between couples, friends and strangers
sharing meals.
Hussain
Dalal playing the dorky guy in the first story was the funniest among
all. His timing was impeccable and the expressions were to die for.
The play ends with a beautifully performed story where in a man and
woman separated by fate move on in their lives and co-incidentally
meet four decades after they part ways. They meet at the same cafe,
not knowing who they were, humming on The Beatles song playing in the
cafe and they look at each other and realize that they spent four
decades waiting for each other and that’s when the curtains drop.
It
was a funny, light and very different play. The direction, acting,
pace and set are top-notch
and ofcourse there are plenty of laughs, uneasy ones though. If you
like gentle and quirky theatre, this play is a must see.
Name
: Varun Kalra
Roll
No. : 16
Class
: FYBMM
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