It was an excellent Tiatro with excellent message full of patriotism towards Goa. In this Tiatro the script writer and director Anil Pednecar played an excellent role of an elderly father in which capacity he gives an excellent message to those Goans who with the help of Portuguese Passports surrender their Goanness to settle down in London while in Goa outsiders come, engage in business and settle down in Goa permanently as citizens of Goa. The Tiatro reaches its climax in the last scene where Anil himself in his beautiful oratory on the theme elevates the Tiatro to its crescendo. Never in the past I heard in any Tiatro such an excellent message delivered with perfect clarity and precision as it was done by Anil Pednecar in his Tiatro "Open Jail" at Kala Academy, Panjim, yesterday at 7.00.
Seen above Rosario de Benaulim singing his solo
Seen above Olga singing her duet with her partner.
The title of the Triatro “Open Jail” is used in figurative sense where one full family of 4 members with Portuguese Passports by surrendering their family house and property goes to London where they like others live in an unGoan style befitting the vulgar western style. Thru this way of life they become prisoners of this system converting themselves into as prisoners of that uncultured way of life full of immorality and vulgarity. They live there as prisoners of that system not in a closed door Jail but in an “Open Jail” where they act freely without any hindrance.
Seen in the picture above vulgar party life in UK
The maximum credit goes to the young small girl who played the role of a grand daughter of Anil. To play such an excellent role at that so young age with so much of confidence without any stage fright means something unimaginable. The director carries major credit to groom this young girl to such a perfection. Pretty looking Olga does her role very well and in comedy both the seasoned comedians Bachan and Brian excelled very well.
In the side show songs, Rosario de Benaulim rendered a nice solo “Dollo” while the duet “Soro” rendered by Fermino with his partner and also another duet “AID” by Olga with her partner were worth admiring as both these duets were meaningful and rendered also well.
As a whole this Tiatro was very well performed.
A. Veronica Fernandes,
Candolim,
Goa.