Theatre Interpretations to Pop Theories
Theatre Interpretations to Pop Theories
- Plays come and go, but debts accumulate!
- In this day and age, mounting a play is like attempting the high jump. So, you’ve a team and you’ve to win the high jump. But the seven people in your team can jump one foot each. Either you quit the theatre or you must launch a fulsome tirade against the unfair rules in high jump!
- When you sack actors, the one you have sacked – will have a bonanza the next year. Big bucks, BMW, and a Bungalow!
- In your dealings with a private sector organisation for sponsorship there will always be one person who knows you’re fibbing. You must goad an MBA-grad in the organisation to get this person fired!
- Good ideas are a paucity. l But that does not mean one should be miserly. It’s just that you should know how in the theatre every actor tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Work is accomplished by those actors who have not reached their level of incompetence! Once they become proven incompetents, they migrate to TV serials and the movies.
- Having said so, those who can, act. Those who cannot, direct!
- An interpolation to the above law: And those who can’t direct, produce!
- An extrapolation on the above law: Those who cannot even produce become critics or dramateurs. Or both!
- All playwrights lie. But it doesn’t matter since nobody listens!
- When you dial a wrong number, you never get an engaged line! And when you sent a message to the wrong email id, you always get a response. Somehow the whole thing reminds me of a bad rehearsal. Not that there is anything like a good rehearsal.
- The box office is never the problem. Having said that I don’t mind having a solver who can help me solve the problem!
- The probability of meeting someone known after a play, increases, when you are with someone you don’t want to be seen with!
- A good audience is usually thinking about something else!
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“An extrapolation on the above law: Those who cannot even produce become critics or dramateurs. Or both!”
The last line was the puncher ramuji. Wisdom accumulated over the years is best expresses in the fewest of words…
^:)^ =d>
Hello again Sir…
That was very nicely put in words. Simply amazing. The journey from an idea to a criticism is rightly sarcasticised (if I am right about the word). So many things the theatre people can actually relate to. You just have a way with words Sir. A ^:)^ for that.
I also wanted to thank you for putting those links of the caferati contests. Thanks a ton for that. It is because of you that I got an opportunity to give the right exposure to some of my works. In fact, the contest inspired me to work more and I was amazed to see what all things could spill out of me. Thank you for being one ‘farishta’.
Very witty words. Thank you for the humorous read.
….these were the only thoughts. Damn good one Ramu. Loved every bit of it. How about a sequeal to this one….how to survive all this and still be Ramu Ramanathan ?
There’s more. Courtesy: Shaw …
… And so with Hundred And One Salaams to George Bernard Shaw who was a playwright, letter writer, preface writer, socialist, vegetarian and ironic, here we go …
- A doctor
Hi,
This is Pranoti Surve, a journalism student form Mumbai. Many years ago, I participated in a street play for CRY. I met someone whom I believe was you. The play began was based on the child labour theme… I’ve wodered for a long time….
let me know if you are the same person… If u can c my email address here nothing like it… if not the my blog address is www.pranotis-looking-glass.blogspot.com
wud be nice to know it was u…
regards
pranoti
greetings pranoti.
… if memory serves me right, i’ve never seen a street play by CRY.
i’ve attended (as an observor) workshops by pramod pathak and co with the children of dongri remand home + children at akanksha, etc. plus seen some of their play productions. thats it.
i’ll visit your blog, now.
bye. take care!
^:)^^:)^^:)^^:)^^:)^ Seriously!
One more to add to the list…
The more the things change the more they remain same
One more of G.B.Shaw
- The most treacherous and remorseless battle is that between the artist man and the mother woman.
( hope i remeber it right. This is from Man and Superman)