Monday, September 7, 2009

My day out.



For the past three or more days, I've been meaning to blog. It wasn't the scarcity of the material that stopped me. It was just plain laziness.
Lets start with something which happened recently- I watched a play ( yipppeee!!!) After what seemed like years of self inflicted exile, the feeling of being out, well,was liberating.
The play was called 'Copenhagen' Directed by
Prakash Belawadi, it was
one of the better plays that I have watched. It had matter and depth and layers and layers of interpretations. Physics, ethics, choice and consequence, the gray scale of human nature,all paths weaved together so perfectly, such that whichever path you followed, the destination was the same. The discussion which followed was really intellectual, and opened my mind to wonderful new ideas and perspectives. The actors did justice to those stalwarts of Physics- Bohr and Heisenberg,convincing me that they were the great physicists that said they were. They brought humanness to the characters that we have read only in text books and believe nearly to be super beings. The play, has the world war II as the background and talks about choices, confusion, fear and uncertainty.It is a beautiful play.

Sadly,Theatre isn't given its due very often. The auditorium was filled with a handful of people. This form of entertainment is declining and discouraging turn outs aren't helping too much. But it should be noted, we did watch the 11:30 am show. Hopefully the 'Real' show ( scheduled at 5:30 pm)was a better success.
Even though the play is over two hours,the pace is fast and the story holds your interest.Its a must watch.

Lunch was at Garuda's food court;Malaysian noodles and coke.Met a couple of friends.Chased a couple cousins down Garuda mall( being a stalker is hard work,Pallu!)and called it a day.

And that's how my Saturday went. Oh I shouldn't forget the tasty lasagna I had for dinner at Citrine ,the restaurant in Seshadripuram .A dinner that ended with, wonderfully, coffee.
That was Saturday-my day out.

Anyone out there still willing to give me a job?


5 comments:

  1. sounds super fun Meg. I have watched few episodes of Prakash Belawadi's tele serials but have always wanted to watch his play. maybe next time :)

    what else is good in Citrine ya?

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  2. Absolutely right. Theatre is not given it's due often. And with more and more actors moving towards cinema, it is becoming difficult for the theatre people to keep going. The result, a handful of good groups scattered across the nation. Let better sense prevail and let actors spare some time for theatre.

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  3. eich..nice ya..i like your day...

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  4. @ shruthi.. i'll call you the next time 'round...and nearly everything's good in citrine and whats more, it is reasonably priced.
    @ Jogi, Its a bit like research. Theres always the funding problem and hardly anyone ever encourages you.:) dont you think?
    @ Maanu.. you do? of course you would, you were a part of it , you fool!!

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