Had a GREAT weekend...

... My friend and I went to the theatre... we'd been wanting to do that for a while.. but somehow the plan never materialized... until yesterday...

.. Went to the Ranga Shankara.. saw a play called Double Comedy Hysteria or something like that..
A Chennai-based troupe called Evam I think.. they were pretty damn good !!

... they did a couple of Monthy-Python sketches first... complete with the Brit accent and funny expressions... and post intermission went onto a humorous adaptation of Hamlet..

.. Three guys... took a while to get the audience's pulse..but once they had it... they went for it !! They had perfect comic timing !

.. It was going pretty well... till about the intermission.. and I was tellng my friend .. how whenever I see one of these good theatre performances.. I get this urge to join some kind of theatre workshop...

.. Well post the intermission... my wish was granted... I got "picked" from the audience to play-out a scene.. I got to be Ophelia.. and I got the whole theatre experience... include the critique.. as well as thundering applause after my piece-de-la-resistance... Ophelia's full-throated scream.. that I converted into a squeak making full use of my artistic license...
They nick-named me Bob.. and picked on me for quite sometime.. sending the audience in splits... Well.. the fact that I wasn't wearing any shoes (I always take em off when Im having a good time..).. jus added to the "fun"

When the play ended.. almost everyone there was looking at me and smiling and grinning... as we walked out of the arena..

Even minus the workshop I was having a pretty great time.. but what with.. its a day I'll remember for a WHILE ! :)