Dreams and beyond...

Dreams and beyond...

Humans are the ‘ Sons and daughters of Adam and Eve’... We are the smartest species on earth... Not the Dolphins ( According to Douglas Adams...) What differentiates us from other creatures of Gaia is not only our ability to laugh but also the ability to dream... Dream is a very vague word... We dream about the most weird things... but these so called things keep us goin... Imagine this world if Hitler would not have dreamt of Germany to be a world power... or Agamemnon not dreaming of winning Troy... or Achilles not wanting to be immortal... or the quest of Alexander... We would have been very different... The very essence of Homo sapiens sapiens’ dreams is the ability to think of the future... the way they go about it... the way they achieve their targets... The targets they have set in their Dreams...

So when Haider was thinking of an apt topic for a play at ZeiGeist, he had to come up with this topic... So we are trying to portrait a classroom of under-graduates... the people we were some years ago... at the entrance of adulthood... in our early 20’s... when we thought ‘World is our playground’... when we thought ‘ The world will play on our fingers’.... Some ambitions... Some dreams... So this is a story about a bunch of students chasing the impossible... And a guy who wanted to take a path less trodden... I am the professor... I have an over- zealous bunch of students... In my class i have an actor, supermodel,, Politician, Housewife... the kind of dreams we all have... or have had in the earlier times... What happens in the class then is total chaos... What happens after that will be told after ZeitGeist...

In the mean time... during the rehearsals its good fun... People forgetting dialogues... Can u imagine... we know others dialogues but not ours... We have a smarty politician, an actor with mix of all other actors, a savvy model, a hyper baba bangali, an Indian idol who thinks he’s the talent India needs( who alone thinks....) a couple of backbenchers and a Prof who refuses to shave off his goatee( that’s me :P )... Crazy lot... M very sure the guys coming for the function are in for a surprise... Am sure they can see a lot of themselves in us...

So thats the story as of now... Hope Mr. Director doesn’t mind me givin u a few hints about his creation... hehe...

I’ll conclude this with a Johnny Depp quote: “ With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be otherwise its not acting. Its lying.”

Kudos guys... Cheers...