I have to be a drunken sod in a new play
And charm women who, to my wit, are blasé.
I have funny lines filled with malapropism,
An awkward gait with quirky mannerism.
But we’re not playing Brecht, Beckett or Pinter,
Not even Tennessee William’s ‘A Cat on A Hot Tin Roof’,
We're merely adapting a genteel Irish tale to an Awadhi winter
And yet we find men across cultures a farce, a spoof.
© Dan Husain
December 21, 2005
PS: The play is 'Aristocrats' by Brian Friel. Our adaptation is called 'Mirza Bagh' and will be staged in Delhi in March, 2006. Watch the blog 'Doing Delhi' for more details. :-)
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And the band plays on. So it seems.
Nice
good luck :)
nice...good luck :)
ha, i agree.. yu havent said anything new about men ... yu just make it adorable as ususal...
wish i can make it to the play -- good luck
Vaishnavi
Hi Dan,
All the best for the new play. My ambition is to see you act soon!
J
'genteel irish'? And it takes a helluva man to say such a thing about men!
Danish,
break a leg or heal an arm
let them drown in surplus charm
Mirza's bagh's not Beckett's game?
Irish (like all men) have karm
Incidentelamente, while your Mirza Bagh's not Pinter -- my (imagined self in) Lal Bagh is ... likewise not Pinter.
If this amounts to mere coincidence, I will perhaps begin to consider the hat-eating concept.
cheers, d.i.
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