NEW TIATRO “THANK YOU GOD” BY PAL SOARES.
Yesterday 7thof this mnth I had the previllege to watch the new Tiatro “THANK YOU GOD” written and directed by one of the best playwrights among the Tiatro writers and directors, Pal Soares who is especially come to Goa to stage this Tiatro, from Lndon where he is working there.
Seen above is Pal Soares thanking his troupe and the audience
Much to my expectation this Tiatro reached to its nadir story wise, of course as usual. His earlier Tiatros were also had great quality in them. Pal Soares currently carry the unique distinction of keeping the tradition of writing best of Tiatros as they were written earlier by our gigantic Tiatrists. His topics are totally different from what we cheaply nowadays get in the Tiatro industry and the greatness of his Tiatros lies in the beautiful “Cantos” he introduces in his Tiatros just as he did in this Tiatro.
Olga Vaz seen singing her solo on Goan communal Politics
The Play was vehemently shouldered on their shoulders by all the participating artistes among whom I can easily rate the performance of Chitra as the best where with her majestic personality and appropriate acting she wins the hearts of the audience by playing the role of the wisdomatic mother. Never ever before I saw her at her best as it was in this Tiatro where Pal Soares ceated her the most appropriate role. In this role, she really displays her maturity and experience she gained during the preceding years.
Seen above are the New Comedy Queen Ivon and Comedian Jesus
I don’t have the proper words to highlight in the bold capital letters the greatness of Jessica Gomes in enacting her role as the unmarried mother of a child. Her personality, beautiful looks and appropriate dress code and of course the delivery of her statements rocked the hall which was though not full. Her conversation and argument with her ex-boyfriend in the second session of the Tiatro were of Hemletic nature and at moments it melted the hearts of the audience. I saw some in the audience even with tears in their eyes. Her style of delivery and body language and appropriate posture gave better touch to her performance. The director deserves highest compliments for selecting her for this role. Earlier, the great C.Alvares used to utilize the talents of the female artistes in a similar manner.
Seen above is Camilo singing his solo on Body Organs
Godwin does justice to his role and especially the short eloquence he delivered on the benefits of Alcholic Anonymous. I am sure many among the audience must have gained the benefits of what he spoke. His vocals were very powerful and he excelled in delivering the Cantos. His dialogues and arguments with his brother Oldrin were superb. I fail to understand why such smart artistes are not seen in more Tiatros. Like Pal Soares, other prominent directors must also induct in their Tiatros such artistes. We must encourage them further to rise up and flourish on the Konkani Stage. The small roles played by Cruz Pinto as the father and by Sanaya as the daughter were laudable. The role played by the young girl Francisca as an illegitimate child was very impressive.
Youngster Estenecio singing his solo
It is to the credit of director that every artiste played his or her role well inspite of the lack of proper rehearsals. According to my information due to unavoidable circumstances, Pal Soares at the last moment was to stop staging this Tiatro now but “Thank You God”, with the strong backing of all the artistes he finally took the step to go ahead and because of this, audience like me who are hungry for the good script and good enactment managed to quench our thirst of witnessing a beautiful story. And precisely because of this, I feel those who are interested in watching a Tiatro with good story like what we used to watch from the yesteryear top Tiatrists, they must not miss this Tiatro. Pal Soares also plays a small role which is liked by the audience. Jose also played a nice role of a goonda type boy.
A Scene where the lovely pair of Godwin & Jessica are seen
In the Side-Show songs, as usual, Olga Vaz stole the show by rendering a powerful political solo where she tore the BJP Government in Goa under Parricar, into pieces especially for the harassment and persecution they give to the Christians. She even questioned the Christian members of BJP why they kept their silence when Parricar government is working so hard to destroy Christianity in Goa. She called all the Christians MLA’s of BJP as impotent to raise their voices against injustice done to Christians. She also rendered a nice duet with Anil Pednecar. Marcos Vaz rendered a song on the effect of the Coal in Vasco. Both the solos of Camilo were well rendered especially the second one on the importance of our organs, namely the Heart, the Brain and Kidneys. Young boy Estencio by rendering a nice solo indicated that another star is already born in the constellation of Konkani Stage.
Anther scene where Pal Soares & Pinto are seen
Musical score for this Tiatro was beautifully provided by James & Shennon and troupe.
Yet one more scene where Comedians Pitush & Ivon are seen
Though the Tiatro and artistes were good but the director has goofed in starting the Tiatro at 3.15 PM instead of at 3.30 PM as indicated in the Newspaper.
Sanya is seen singing her solo
Though the artistes performed well yet the Mike system was faulty as everything what is said on the stage was not very audible to entire the audience.
The last scene where the reunion is seen
Though the artistes performed well yet the Mike system was faulty as everthing what is said on the stage was not very audible to entire the audience.
The Cantos need to be rendered a bit louder, only when Godwin and Jessica rendered them, they were audible.
Congratulations to Pal Soares and his entire troupe. Well done Pal.
A.Veronica Fernandes.
A.Veronica Fernandes.