Last evening, after a day long siesta, we went to watch the second play of the Vodafone Odeon Theatre Festival having missed the first one the previous evening. This was called “Hamlet: The Clown Prince” and was directed by Rajat Kapoor. I had just recently seen him acting in Dasvidaniya so expected his brand of acting to come forth in the play we were going to watch.
While we were entering at about 6.45 pm, we saw the director himself walking around quite causally in the lobby of G.D. Birla Sabhaghar. We got seated in the second row and in no time the play was on its way. I didn’t quite expect it to be such a combination of humour and seriousness. The great part about the play was its bringing of age theatre in the sense of involving the crowd quite literally in the performance, much like stand-up comedy, yet being a theatrical performance.
Noteworthy were the performances of Atul Kumar and Neel Bhopalam.
After that splendid evening, there was no better way of ending it but by dinner somewhere nice. The only place that came to mind at that point was “Fire & Ice” and those Italian Pizzas. Maybe some influence from the play itself. So we went to Fire & Ice, and though it was packed and we had to wait for twenty minutes or so, it was well worth the wait. We ordered a couple of Kingfisher beers and Focacia with cheese and garlic followed by a pepperoni Pizza. Finally we ordered a wonderful desert of Wraps and Vanilla Ice-cream. This place has really kept its standards high and its always a pleasure tingling those taste buds with true Italian fare.
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