This is yet another evidence to prove those “Dedd Xanne” pundits who say that Tiatros are coming to an end in Goa because people dislike them now. They even said that very shortly its existence will remain in the history books only for the posterity to know that once upon a time there wēr̥ē Tiatros in Goa etc. These bloody fools, the Goan pundits are rubbish people who are fit for nothing in Goa except to act as pessimists for anything that is going on well. To prove them wrong there is yet another example to show that within three days in a village Calangute two Tiatros were staged in the Church Compound, the first one was on 8th and the second on 10th of this month and both were fabulously patronized by the Tiatros enthusiasts. Moreover again on the 18th of this month in Candolim there is going to be another Tiatro of the renown director Irineu Gonsalves and once again at the end of this month yet there is going to be another Tiatro at Calangute. This is like a feast of Tiatros for the craze of the innumerable people who are interested in patronising the Tiatro
The Tiatro that was staged on 10th of this month by the two top Tiatrists namely Tari as writer and Franncis de Tuem as director was started right in time as stipulated at 7.30 PM thereby maintaining the time discipline for which I congratulate the writer and director and this Tiatro was once again like the earlier one was very well patronised by the huge number of audience. This Tiatro is staged in aid of one young boy of 11 years Daylan Borges from Calangute who is suffering from some deadly sickness and to cure it lot of money running into crorers of, is required. Knowing the plight of that sick boy , one Bom Samaritan from the Calangute village itself gave as donation of Rs.45,000.00/- the contractual charges of Tiatro i.e. of this Show.
Inspite of being such a fat amount the donor of this big amount requested not to disclose his name thus giving a Biblical example that said “What you give in your right hand your left hand should not know”. It is a very good lesson for many of us especially the politicians of the third grade who by robbing the money from here and there like extorting bribe from the innocent poor and even from the treasury of Government and giving this same money as assistance to some people and make such a big noise of this financial help that they think they made a big thing.
With the help of the looted money or illicit money you cannot achieve good result. Even when I see in our Churches the Benches where it was written at the Centre the name of the person who paid the money for those Benches. It is becoming very disturbing and slavish even in the house of God such cheapness and advertisement of the cheap people is exhibited by those Catholics who are not very well conversant in Christianity or they may be fooled by their Church Pe. Vigars to insert their names on those Benches with the promise to make pompous show of their donation.
In this Tiatro of Tari I saw many new faces of the artistes both males and females but they proved their worth while acting and singing, their performance was worth admiring. The play is surroundd along the family story where a Goan girl elopes with her non-Goan Ghantee type of boyfriend finally she suffers a lot. This was very pathetic story when even the mother of the eloped girl refuses to accept her daughter back home when she returned miserably home. The role played by Tari of the brother of the girl was excellent thus proving once again that he is the best to perform such roles while the role of the father played by Agusto de Calangut was worth admiring and as his wife Roma in her usual manner performed her role very well and proved to everyone that why she is in high demand and loved by the audience.. Both Vilbert as boyfriend and as his girlfriend Afifa de Morjim played their roles well while the one Canto that rendered by Afifa was excellent, it was lyricswise very good but rendering it was most beautiful.
The Side Show songs were good where especial mention must be made to the opening solo which was well composed and also rendered well by Peter de Arambol, the songs rendered by Agusto de Calangute worth admiring, the duet rendered by Peter de Arambol and Roma was beautiful emitting wonderful looks of her with her style a bit changed., Francsi de Tuem playing the captain inning rendered his political song indicating his joining the Didi’s party Trinamool Congess and why his oppoinets become so inquisitive of it, Marcos Vaz and Xavier Gomes also rendered their solos well so also by Shasha with her beautiful looks and majestic personality. Other items too were well performed especially the one performed by Francis de Tuem – Marcus Vaz – Xavier Gomes and Lawy Travasso that got them lot of encores.
While concluding I congratulate Tari and Francis de Tuem and their entire troupe including the Musicians under their leadership Alex who provided a very good musical score.
A.Veronica Fernandes.