Shireen and
Nikita and
Kahini, Farheen and – Spanish
Shravan – Tamil
Rathod-Guitar
Flappy and Adhip- Hindi
Anjali-mime
Vaidya- African dude
Anushree- Hawker
Aqeel and Prajay- Train jackers (if that’s a word)
Chai's rough plot- my comments are in red
Introduction by
(shireeen on stage,
Shireen: “Are you insane? Learning our languages is so important. Expecially in
…(dialogue needs some more modification. Any suggestions?)
Curtains open.
Train noize in the baclground (the typical rajdhani express noize)
Light focuses on a few couples:
1. French couple speaking among themselves (nikita and sasha- two lines something very typically french, bearing the body language in mind-short and simple, ure choice)
Followed by
Spanish and hindi
Guitar and American
Hindi Gujju and Tamil
Mime and African
{People, pls start working with ure partner and start thinking of lines to say on stage }
Hawker enters, swinging a ring of scissors and knives around, shouting in Marathi. Approaches the Spanish and French persons and wildly shoves the knives and scissors at them. They get scared -qu'est ce a-t-elle? oo lala ..or something like that ). Approaches the Tamil person, who does not comprehend.Hindi and Gujju persons approach and start bargaining.(kitne a hey? kya? hindi mein bol! ) After failing miserably to sell anything, she leaves.
Again everyone sitting down and jabbering. American and Tamil interact? Etc.
Hijackers enter with knives in their hands. “Freeze!”
American understands, shouts, screams. French ppl think its another hawker, smile reaussruingly at each other and conitnue to jabber among themselves. Tamil person approaches him, asking how much, in Tamil?
Back to Shireen and
K"Can't u see how different languages have fulled misunderstandings? '
S'ure right, maybe a commo language might help communication easier'
noize in the Background
(each line is said by one person each)
Each language is unique, and each language ....
Can u imagine descirbing the indian monsoon in french?
Or the swiss alps in urdu?
Every day 3 languages die. Imagine the culture and knowledge that dies along with it
No No to a common language, no to uniformity- Language is my identity.
everyone (in their own language- language is our identity)
(karina and shireen dont do anything, they are mere observers)
4 comments:
Karina, I still fail to understand how the miscommunication between languages leads to the theme of 'language is my identity'. Rather, the miscommunication concept and your initial introduction with Shireen emphasizes the importance of being multi-lingual or having the knowledge of languages. If our thesis is 'language is my identity', then i believe we need to change our skit completely or select a different idea altogether to portray this theme.
i feel that the play brings out the common language aspect, and then at the end the people plead against it - as evidenced in your script.
well written, btw.
a few nitpickings - i feel that it is necessary to expand on the hindi specifically as a common language aspect, esp considering the 'test' was hindi...
the french should specifically be haughty and aloof...
the hijackers need not participate in the last scene? the pleading for identity part... after all they dont represent any particular identity
anushree could come in for that though...
and oh ya why noize?
ummm this is me aqeel btw...
In this play, we just show one side of the argument. The other side is left to the judgement of the audience. We can't probably show both sides of it for obvious time constraints. I think, with a little revision on Monday morning, we can actually start practice on Wednesday. It is a great idea, and the plot is quite interesting. As regards to specific characters, adding to the As regards to the IT section, Rathod, Aqeel, Proj and I will handle it. I do hvae some ideas about it.
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