Had been yesterday to Rangashankara to catch the play “Hamlet” with my collegues from Applibase. The play was the first play I hv been to in almost a decade and it was worth all the running around :P.

The Indianized version of the play had (hold ur breath) Duality(2 ppl playing almost every char), Dialouges in English(classical lines by Shakespeare), Hindi, Tulu and Kannada. 3 forms of Dramatics(Dhrupad, Yakshagana and Theatre), 2 ppl playing Hamlet(one being a really beautiful girl :P ) and some hilarious sequences.

Fortunately Preethi had given us all a link to a summary of Hamlet, so we were not taken back by this flavour of it. If you hv not read it, please do before you go to the play its worth the effort.

I loved the whole ensemble and the way they showed duality the best. The way they captured two events done by the same char in the same time without forcing the char to move around was beautiful… not to mention the ability to show unspoken expressions by one person while the other says the dialouge.

I was the most comfortable with the hindi dialouges… they were fast and heavy(trust me they were) but were incredibly eazy to pick up and some of the rude comments by Hamlet(in hindi) during the play were really funny.

Amoung the actors… Loved both the Hamlets but the male one stole the show(would hv loved to put up names but no official website and my memory aint that good :P). The female Hamlet said the famous line(refer post name) and was immaculate in her performance, great work keep it up. Rest of the cast complemented perfectly and the enter ensemble delivered perfectly.

I cant wait to get back to watch some more plays… plan to catch 2 more next week, that depends on when my friend’s wedding is(hv to plan arround it). So here goes… the start of a new hobby called Theatre.

PS: Read the play’s review here