The Tea-Master's Column

The latest play I saw was the play "Antigone" - that shows the conflict of love for brother that defies rationality. Review of one of the plays that I saw at Bangalore's Rangashankara: The play "Perchance to Dream" was by Folksbarn Travelling Theatre from France. They play started off with "Romeo and Julliet" with Julliet calling out from her verandah for Romeo. Then it was "Hamlet" talking to his father's ghost. Next came a very humorous part with the actors deciding on how to cast the pay "King Lear". Then came "Hail the Thane of Cawdor"- Macbeth. After the interval, we come to the Romeo's banishment and Julliet's taking the sleeping pill. Hamlet soliloquies on "To be or Not to be" - and then tormenting his mother for her guilt. The cast then very humorously played out "King Lear" with a cake to show the division of his kingdom to his three daughters. Then the muder of Duncan and Banquo....

The dates have been getting postponed every week since the last one month. After all it is not easy having all 29 of us working in various projects, having different deadlines decide on a common date. A surprise meeting on a Tuesday afternoon and as we all huddled together in the conference room ruling out possibilities – and then the beans were spilled – Fisherman’s cove at The Taj. What about the costs – well of course the long list of pending treats can get cleared at one go!! March 16th, 2006, 8.00 AM: The excitement was visible. People hustled to finish up their tasks in the first half of the day. No more coffee breaks, no chatting in the cubes. “Yes, we will finish before we leave”, was unequivocally communicated to all anxious onsite coordinators. So on a sunny Chennai afternoon, some promising to come back and work – the Texans at Infosys went to chill out together. A twenty minute drive and we were all at the venue, all 28 of us. As we made our way to the open thatched huts ca...