"God" - Comedy, Confusion and Drama

24 July, 2012 - the day God came to NUJS... 

“Every good play has to have a good beginning, a middle and an end.” (– Hepatitis, in God by Woody Allen)… Or does it?

Delightfully confusing and refreshingly comic, the play "God", a Barnstormers Production, opened to a full house on Tuesday evening with the stage set up as the entrance of Sardi's, Broadway and 45th street, the New York theatre hub.

Curtains were raised and the audience, that had been waiting with bated breath, broke into applause as two of our leads, Greeks, Hepatitis (Aniket Ghosh) and Diabetes (Joachim Saldanha) walked onto the stage engaged in a very intense conversation about the ending of the play Hepatitis was scripting for a drama festival.  An ending that neither of the two seem to concur upon. This debate goes on until Diabetes points how both of them were fictional and were characters in a play. And this leads to an extremely amusing situation where Hepatitis decides to address the audience of the play in which he was a fictional character (we did mention it’s delightfully confusing). And therein entered Doris Levine (Modhulika Bose), a major in philosophy, who, not quite content with just watching the play, came up to answer Hepatitis’s questions on life , freedom and chaos. The exchange of philosophies continues until they realize they need to get back to the ending of the play (or the lack thereof). Eventually Trichinosis (Utkarsh Srivastava), another Greek who’d heard of their dilemma, brought with him an ending that was supposedly bound to amaze the audience. 

Armed with their finale, they present their play with Diabetes playing Phidipedes, a slave who needs to deliver a message to a king. The ending of course doesn't go quite the way it was planned. The crowd was in splits throughout and there was not one dull moment. With characters that ran across the stage 

With some brilliant performances by the actors, costumes that were a huge hit and Music that won the audience over, the play kept everyone enthralled till the very last minute. The cast and crew did an incredible job of putting it all together. None of this would have been possible if not for the Director Modhulika and her zeal and passion.

Akshaya Venkataraman....