It is truly one of the best plays that I have seen. The Midsummer Night's Dream directed by Tim Supple and performed at Delhi's Kamani Auditorium certainly gave theatre-starved Delhites like me a insight into what a good play is all about. More than anything what really amazed me was how Supple used the cramped space in Kamani to weave out a visual bonanza-a dream (except that the cold January night made it a winter night's dream). There were about 15 characters and the plot is spread over 2-3 different locations. But the small stage at Kamani, which is a laugh compared to the theatre houses in other parts of the world, was enough for Supple and his team to take the audience into a breathtaking performance full with wit, seduction and some fantastic music. It was also wonderful to see how various languages were weaved into the script in such a way that even those who did not understand Malayalam, Bengali or Tamil got to enjoy the essence of the play.
So what am I doing writing about a play on a blog that primarily is based on telecom issues? Well this is the etc part of the blog. Watching the two and half hour play I couldn't stop myself from thinking as to how much better the telecom sector could do if it had a good director. Someone who knows how best to use scarce resources like spectrum and at the same time bring out the best performance from each operator. Instead, what we have is a sector that promises to be the best in the world- but sadly no one knows the script or their role. Therefore most of the drama is now off stage in the courts. Wish we had a Tim Supple directing the telecom sector.
Well that could be just a dream of a self proclaimed telecom expert. But one thing for sure is that had it not been for the legal tangles in telecom (blame it on all the poor direction over the past 6 months), which in effect has stopped the news flow in an otherwise active sector, I certainly would not have been able to get out of office in time to catch the Midsummer Night's Dream on a weekday.
2 comments:
Really nice topic, got a chance to see this play in mumbai and while reading ur blog i felt as if words playing me dejavo, like a radio tune, i swear i have heard this before :) Your blog is a real good play with words, specially where you adressed urself a self proclaimed telecom expert...you should write your own take on tokenless dual authentication using your mobile phone and name it "Karmasutra of a self proclaimed telecom expert" Regards....
Thanks for your comments. And thanks for the title suggestion. Interesting.
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