TIATRO “EKUCH ROSTO” WRITTEN BY M.BOYER AND DIRECTED & STAGED BY TOMAZINHO CARDOSO.
THOUG M. Boyer died over a decade back yet his memory thru his excellent Tiatro “Ekuch Rosto”, brought back alive when Tomazinho Cardoso under his direction staged Boyer’s above named Tiatro at Kala Academy Open Air venue on 26th of this month starting at 7.00 PM. This Tiatro was attended by the capacity attendees. With everyone whom I spoke after the end of this Tiatro, I got only one answer “CHODD BORO”, in this group of people were not only the freshshers but also those oldies who watched this Tiatro under the direction of M Boyer when he was alive, 40 years back. The first time this Tiatro was staged by M. Boyer four decades back when communal sentiments and casteism was still at its peak. Leave aside in politics but even in our day to day life and also even in our social, commercial and professional activities communalism was ruling supreme if not openly then at least in a disguise form. This discord was first came to the fore immediately on the day Goa was invaded by the Bharati serkar headed by Jawaharlal Nehru. When once I asked Mr. Boyer what prompted him to write this Tiatro, replied M. Boyer saying “to eradicate from our society the curse of communalism”.
The credit for staging this Tiatro so successfully should surely go to Tomazinho Cardoso because he did a thorough study of this script and selected as best as possible the new artistes to perform their respective roles as best as possible if not exactly the way original artistes performed. One thing it must be admitted that no body among the current Tiatrists can be equal to M. Boyer, Antonette Mendes, Prem Kumar, Rita Rose and Alfred Rose in enacting their roles. No female artiste can emulate the beautiful voice of Antonette Mendes and if M. Boyer then attained his zenith it was partly because of the all round performance of Antonette Mendes and it was M. Boyer the lone director who utilized the entire talent of Atonette Mendes to promote his TiATROS. The 2 most beautiful Cantos of her in this Tiatro brought back nostalgic feelings of her singing prowess though one of them the director this time brought on the stage as a Trio giving a touch of Mando but also performed beautifully by all the tree young girls.
The personality and looks of Rita Rose was matchless, Prem Kumar’s way of speaking like an elderly man was superb, M.Boyer’s role though small yet it was like captain’s inning, Alfred Rose was just a natural actor without any artificiality and Jacinto Vas was like a Pele in Brazil foot-ball team having no replacement to play his role. However, comedian 64 was very close to Jacinto Vaz in physical structure and acting. The artistes that deserved the highest compliments for playing their respective roles as Hindu couple – father and mother – Pradeep Naik and Irene Cardoso, of course flawlessly, the latter inspite of being a Christian played her role as a typical hindu woman very well.
The Side ShOW Songs consisted of all the old songs of oldies but still attractive and meaningful.
Stage setting was done well by Timothy Dias and Musical score was well provided by Mathias and his troupe.
WELL done Tomazinho Cardoso and his troupe.
A.Veronica Fernndes.