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The spoof on Hamlet was a laugh riot
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TRIPLE TROUBLE A refreshing spoof
Life is incredibly short but Shakespeare's plays are unimaginably long. If the tedium of Hamlet was foisted off on to you at high school or college, here is some comic relief and couldn't have found a more heartening occasion to delight and create awareness for a noble cause.
Well, here are three unadulterated, brilliant, versatile, fast-paced, funny and engaging performers from Evam to perk up a spoof on Hamlet - a nonsensical, theatrical shake-up, an out and out caricature of the great Shakespearean tragedy. Fasten your seatbelts and gear up for an interactive Hamlet of truly laugh-out-loud and fall-off-your chairs hysteria. It was both ahem and mayhem. And while it is helpful to know your Shakespeare, it is impossible to stop yourself from laughing away to glory.
The three jocular guys set the stage on fire and spared no occasion. This play was so anarchical in spirit that for a serious Shakespeare purist, it could prove fatal. For kids and beginners and theatre lovers, it is highly inspiring and creative.
The triple trouble spread just that - more trouble! What these brilliant performers do is - they break character, break the play, break every rule, argue about the direction of the play, refuse to play their parts and run about in a wild frenzy in the auditorium, toss good-natured insults, and interact with/razz the audience. They even do an encore and render the dialogues backward. They even force an audience member to say her line (actually, she just has to scream).
Wait a second! There was a cute five-act warm-up before the enactment of the original spoof. It was such a fuzzy, feel-good evening that one of the members sitting next actually wanted to know about Hamlet as he was absolutely enjoying the laughter riot. Can a timeless tragedy turn into a rip-roaring comedy for an ennobling evening? Why not! And no question of Hamletian `to be or not to be' when it `s about sensitive charity shows like this one!
The play was staged for Swayamkrushi. Spearheaded by Manjula Kalyan, Swayamkrushi was conceived in1991 as a bold experimental approach with the rehabilitation of mentally challenged, autistic or disabled girls and boys.
LASYA VEMPARALA
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