Hedda Gabler

Cast: Sheeba Chadha, Neeraj Kabi, Denzil Smith, Samar Sarila, Tillotama Shome, Shipra Singh and Veera Abadan.

I walked into Rangashankara picked up the ticket and wanted to get some grub before the show. I saw two persons at the café, who apparently had met after really long years and I assumed they would be some veterans of the circuit. It was only later that I realized tha one of them was not only a lead cast in the play but also a popular actor on the play/cinema circle – Denzil Smith.

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The play was decently executed, and the actors looked absolutely confident and were showing off their command and control. This hint of exhibitionism I feel somewhere came in between the character they were portraying… Never the less the play being Hedda Gabler had more than enuf matter and substance to look for than all the false pretences of the actors.

The duration of the play was almost 2 hours and during the 10 minutes break; all the civilized gentlemen and ladies became unruly savages when it came to picking tea/coffee from the counter. It was clearly survival of the fittest, with no consideration whatsoever to order and sanity.