IT HAS BEEN AN HONOUR!!

so ,the hurly burly is done,the battles lost and won...we did it!!! the play ..we pulled it off..it was a success..we forgot lines..forgot cues...movements..but we got the laughs!!! we did it! all the hard work paid off in a big way. all those 4 pm to 9 pm sessions,where we spent half the time monkeying around..with the director ranting away and making all of us sit in a circle and lecturing us...we are actors..we are the opposites of people..we are travellers!!!(oh!!the intellectual masturbation). The agony and the ecstacy...of learning ur lines and movements...and forgetting them..and rehearsals going perfectly on some days and disastrously on others. getting the emotions just right..and then forgetting them the next minute. getting stuck with saying a line in a way it is not supposed to be said and not getting it right after innumerable tries..and then suddenly getting it!!these small moments of ecstacy. and then yesterday happened.it started RAINING!!!we had to take the props and everything to the theatre in the rain!! then the starting time of the show was pushed back by half an hour! and then rang out the third bell...curtains up!!i was hyperventilating...my hands were shaking..but it went well!! and so did the whole play..it was a rush..acting and then rushing down for change of costumes and makeup and rushing back up and taking a few hurried puffs of cigarettes in between..but it all went off perfectly...and then after a couple of hours..scene 23!!the last scene.when jogu said her line...when shall we three meet again?...i felt all the air rushing out of my lungs..now it was well and truly over..wat with me skipping a line ,jijo covering up,jijo cutting in too quickly,mo saying "road" instead of "river",subhayan taking an eternity to deliver a particular dialogue..all of us frozen on stage...kenneth and srin happily forgetting their lines and staring at each other for assistance...athena mumbling a line...shatra running off before i could finish my lines..me carrying on all the same...ohhhhh!!!! but we pulled it off!! hats off to the backstage especially bob and soumitri and mirna..they worked their asses off..stayed up nights and all. and then we paaaaarrtiieedd!!we drank and smoked and we danced!! tiny dancer!!! lay me down in sheets of linen...u had a busy day today!! srin and i beted out an impromptu duet!!! and dancing with athena!u can dance,girl!!whoa!! and finally crashing out for the night!! on the floor!! we had fun?u bet we did. however this IS the END!!jogu is leaving tomorrow!!diyasree and soumitri are leaving quite soon. all the other guys i will meet!!hope so!! ya we will. it was great fun while it lasted. all i can say now to all u wonderful people.....IT WAS AN HONOUR!!!!!