Hyssteria

We watched a play called Hyssteria by Evam on Sunday in Rangashankara Theatre. We reached the veneue around 2:30 and the show was supposed to start at 3:30. We were told that there were no tickets and we could do an advance booking for the 7:30 show. We still stuck around and at around 3:20, to everyone’s wonder, the ticket distributors announced that if we formed a queue, we could get the tickets for 3:30 show…Such are the ways of the world….

The first part of the show was good. It consisted of small humorous Python Plays enacted by Evam. In the second part, the guys went on to stage Hamlet filled with ordinary clichés. I found that a little boring but for the acting by a guy who was playing the part of Gertrude (Hamlet’s mother) or Ophelia (Polonius's daughter). He was really very very funny. The way he uttered, ‘help’ and the way he drowned under a cup of water was hilarious.