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Vol. V ol. IV Issue 27
Established: 1995
Tuesday, 21st September , 2010
OF CHARPOYS AND WRITER’S BLOCK:
PHOTOGRAPH BY MOINAM CHATTERJEE, IX
The Inter-House One Act Play Competition 2010 to see what was happening. The evening of theatre was ably punctuated by periods of song and dance, including a scintillating performance of Tagore’s I Float my Paperboats and Priyamvada Borua’s well-performed Almost Lover. In particular, the rendering of I Float my Paperboats had the staff and students alike enthralled. What made Glimpses of the Action the excellence of this rendition even more amazing was the fact that it was ably choreographed at extremely short Glimpses of the Action notice by Mrs. Alpana Talukdar, hile 2010’s Inter-House One Act Play who also provided the innovatively designed Competition, taking place on the costumes for the dance sequence. 16th of September, provided the The theme of Manas-Jinari’s play was pupils and staff with an enjoyable evening, it also corruption, as it permeates every stage of life presented us with stark contrasts. While the first within India. There was effective use of the stage, two plays chose somewhat tired and hackneyed with only a minimal use of props. The play was themes (Manas-Jinari dealing with corruption and ably supported by a clever choice of music. Dhansiri-Kopili with Indo-Pakistani relations), However, apart from the politician, Keshav Jalan, the latter two plays provided fresh, self-critical who dazzled us with his earthy accent, the rest and wonderfully inventive themes. Bhoroli-Lohit of the cast was underwhelming. There was little undertook a wryly ironic look at the manner in to distinguish between them; neither did they which plays come to fruition, while Namdang- seem to possess individual characteristics of their Subansiri chose, as the focus of its commentary, own, nor did their kinds of corruption seem a student who feels he is overburdened. While particularly different. The play under-utilized the female characters were subdued and Manas-Jinari’s female acting talent, with only one marginalized in the first two plays, they held their girl on stage. own in the latter two plays, providing Dhansiri-Kopili’s play made a powerful, if powerhouse performances. A problem common somewhat cliched bid, towards a realization of to all the plays, however, was that their use of the essential similarity between Indians and the area beneath the stage, although novel, meant Pakistanis. There were dazzling performances that those at the back of the theater were unable by Ishan as Ram, Apurva as the Hindu mob leader
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