The above appeared in Goa's well read daily Herald dated 11.07.14.
This is to refer to the above profile of Tiatro personality, writer & director Pal Soares, appeared in Herald dated 11th of this month. I fully agree with what is written there of Pal Soares. A few days back I saw his new Tiatro "ATAM THORI MHAKAM SHONDI DHIAT" and as I reviewed it in this forum, I found it much better than all the Tiatros I saw during the last so many months since I returned from Kuwait 5 months back. The story is good concerning our children going to the West and their future there, the duologs were excellent, the proverbial statements were very philosophical and pleasing to the ears. Every artiste played his or her role well but more credit should go to Annie Quadros, Antush and comedian Betty for nicely shouldering the major pressure of the play. In Side Show songs, well known political singer Saby De Divar and Benny de Aldona stole the show with their beautiful songs.
Though the show was thinly attended by the audience in Panjim due to many factors yet Pal Soares must not get disappointed because of less crowd. All the well-known playwrights in the beginning faced this problem and only after undergoing this problem they were accepted by the audience and thus they reached to the top. It is something great that the audience attended to Pal's Tiatro last week have commented very positively in appreciation of the excellence Pal Soares displayed on the stage.
Along with me last week, my friend the Dubai Tiatro organizer Remmy Fernandes also saw Pal's Tiatro and he commented to me saying, "this Tiatro is much better". If things work out well, he may take this Tiatro to Dubai.
While concluding, I congratulate Pal Soares for writing such a rich Tiatro and ask him to continue on writing more and more such Tiatros. To elevate the now sagging standard of Tiatros, playwrights like Pal Soares' contribution is a must. As it is since their demise we are yet to have replacements for M. Boyer, Prem Kumar, Remy J. Colaco, Alfred Rose, C. Alvares, J. P. Souzalin, Alexinho de Candolim, Saib Rocha and Minguel Rod. If am not mistaken their void will never be filled by the current top Playwright Tiatrists who show no originality but "cut and paste" from Hindi Movies.
A. Veronica Fernandes,
Candolim, Goa.
Tel: 7507394349.