Sunday, February 14, 2010

the play from hell

A bad play is like a bad date; its difficult to escape from (especially in cramped auditoriums where a hasty exit may attract disapproving glances) just like a sense of propriety may prevent you from bailing out of the latter. The chemistry sucks in a bad date, just like in a clumsily produced play and there was no dearth of ham handed dialogues and contrived situations in 'Sometimes' at the KGAF. I felt the scriptwriter needs to work with the language for at least a decade before even mounting another effort at writing a screenplay in English. There was no flow, the choice of language was jarring, humor, if any was forced; I could go on but as with all bad dates, one should move on, with a sense of gratitude for the good ones whose value is magnified when contrasted with these disasters!

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