When it comes to theatres and plays i was only used to the plays of Crazy Mohan and S.Ve.Shekher. Their plays were a package full of fun and laughter and people who come to watch their plays will surely walk out with pain in their tummy. English theatre was always distant to me and thanks to Sudhish Kamath and his That Four Letter Word, i got introduced to Sunil who plays Zebra in TFLW. Sunil is the co founder of the Chennai based theatre group called Evam.
Evam which has been successfully staging plays for the past three years is celebrating 150 shows of Evam. Sunil persuaded me to come over for their play Art by Evam, which got me very excited because its going to be my first english play and i was eager to meet Sunil in person.
Art by Evam is an eighty five minutes play and has Sunil, Jimmy and Karthik as the lead actors. The story revolves around the three guys. Serge (Jimmy) buys a painting which is white in background and has a lot of designs in it in white, when Marc (Karthik) learns that his friend bought it for 200,000 francs he feels its a bad bargain and criticises the painting. Hell breaks loose, Serge and Marc has a bitter battle with words, Vyan (Sunil) is caught between them in his attempt to unite them. How and why these guys patch up forms the rest of the play.
This serious play is fuelled with subtle comedy at strategic points. All the three guys score well in acting and a stiff competition is clearly seen between them. Karthik having done a few films is quite familiar than the other two. Sunil is one hell of an actor who gives out awesome expressions, i've also seen Sunil's performance in Sudhish Kamath's TFLW. Sunil's performance can be described in just one word ... err sorry two words - Mind Blowing !!!
Jimmy and Karthik are no exception either, right from the body language to dialogue delivery these guys are perfectionists. Seeing the crowd turn up for plays in such a huge number looks very healthy for theatres in Chennai. And there is one more actor in Evam, Vaidhya, a twelfth standard guy who comes in between the show during props change and entertains the audience. More plays of Evam are coming up in the months of January and February, so guys if you have the time make sure you spend it watching Evam, else make time and watch Evam.
7 comments:
hey a good piece of riting there......u described everything aptly.....it was so cool...i just luved the play...even i was used to watching crazy mohan's plays...and this was the first english play that i watched...and it rocked!!
@ zany child
thanks vidya ..... thanks to television, all the plays were available at our houses, which made it lose the hang which the live theatre provides ..... tis been a very long time since am seeing a live play ..... was an excellent experience in itself
hey yeah they were available imn televisions....and yeah long time since i went to a live play...the friend who came along with me was the daughter of the director of crazy mohan plays!!...so even when available on t.v i used to go for fun!!
@ zany child
cool .... i wanted to make it for the evam orkut meet too, but it jus dint work .... and did u watch five point someone
nope i didnt get the opportunity to watch 5pointsomeine..but one of the fun loving books i like is this book...did u watch it?
hmm yeah...almost the same feeling which i had, watching their play. it was as if something too good to be true was happening out there. frankly, i did not expect such quality from a troupe based in chennai (you can sue me for that :))
Good for people to know.
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