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Hi,

So finally it has ended. My 2 month long stint with the theatre group MisF!T has finally ended yesterday. For 2 months I had had a lot of fun learning all the basics of theatre from developing a character to projecting the volume on stage to moving professionally on stage. At the end of the workshop, we had to give a presentation. There were 8 of us who had scripted this play titled ‘The Last Scene’ which belongs to the genre – ‘A play in a play in a play’. We were to make the presentation at Tunbridge High School last night at 8 PM. But heavy rain had brought a huge frown on all our faces. That was when Ratan Thakore Grant (our instructor) stepped in and found us a place in a restaurant – AJ International. We made space for our play and for the audience and improvised on the spot to suit the space constraints provided by the restaurant. It was fun and I thoroughly enjoyed acting under such circumstances. Finally to the clapping of the audiences (there were around 30 invited audience) we introduced ourselves and received their feedback on the script and the individual performances. I was appreciated for one character I played – ‘Director RK’, but was thrashed for my performance as ‘Inspector Joshi’. Oh yeah, we all played 2 characters because it is a ‘Play in a play in a play’. I will provide the venue details when we stage another show, why don’t you drop in?

A love-struck Romeo sings the streets a serenade
Laying everybody low with a love song that he made.
Finds a convenient streetlight, steps out of the shade
Says something like “you and me babe, how about it?”

Juliet says “hey, it’s Romeo, you nearly gave me a heart attack!”
He’s underneath the window she’s singing “hey la, my boyfriend’s back.
You shouldn’t come around here singing up at people like that…
Anyway what you gonna do about it?”

Juliet, the dice was loaded from the start
And I bet that you exploded into my heart
And I forget I forget the movie song.
When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?

Come up on different streets, they both were streets of shame.
Both dirty, both mean, yes and the dream was just the same
And I dreamed your dream for you and now your dream is real.
How can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals?

When you can fall for chains of silver,
You can fall for chains of gold,
You can fall for pretty strangers,
And the promises they hold.
You promised me everything, you promised me thick and thin, yeah!
Now you just say “oh Romeo, yeah, you know I used to have a scene with him”.

Juliet, when we made love you used to cry.
You said “I love you like the stars above, I’ll love you ’til I die”.
There’s a place for us, you know the movie song.
When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?

I can’t do the talks, like the talk on the TV
And I can’t do a love song, like the way it’s meant to be.
I can’t do everything, but I’ll do anything for you,
I can’t do anything, except be in love with you!

And all I do is miss you and the way we used to be,
All I do is keep the beat and the bad company.
Now all I do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme,
Juliet, I’d do the stars with you any time!

Juliet, when we made love you used to cry.
You said “I love you like the stars above, I’ll love you ’til I die”.
There’s a place for us, you know the movie song.
When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?

A lovestruck Romeo sings the streets a serenade
Laying everybody low with a lovesong that he made
Finds a convenient streetlight, steps out of the shade
He says something like “you and me babe, how about it?”

“You and me babe, how about it?”