Fighting odds and coming up trumps

Chennai: With mushrooming TV channels and multiplexes offering the much-needed break from the routine  home-office-home schedule,  we still have a good number of people in Chennai who love watching Tamil plays. 

Yes. There was thunderous applause, a whistle or two and a few laughs at a city sabha staging four short plays on Sunday evening.  For theatre buffs, it was time well-spent watching these plays in a span of two hours.  

Having enjoyed watching and reviewing Tamil plays staged by veteran artistes and upcoming ones for the last two decades,  it is interesting to note that actors and audience in Tamil  theatre, most of the time, have  been in perfect sync.

The master story-teller and the world he creates in the plays has wooed the audience.  

Several drama troupes  have withstood the onslaught of tech-driven era and continue giving their best.  Many plays have won hands down for the way the stories were narrated.  And the actors love doing their parts well.  

Most of the plays don’t run house full, but, definitely,  there are plays where actors own the stage, and own it pretty well, complemented by audience’s enthusiastic response.