Yahoo Yago!
If children (and accompanying grown-ups) were to vote for the most popular stage villain at the summer season of children’s plays this year, they’d undoubtedly pick Yago from Zinga Zinga Roses, played by Neil Bhoopalam in a strange Star Trek meets Michael Jackson outfit, with cheerful abandon and a weapon as deadly as stinky armpits.
Written and directed by Trishla Patel, the play was about the adventures of little Zinga from Planet Sesor, who has to travel to Earth, and with the help of his robot Pi and some Earth kids, save the Rose that can save his planet from evil Yago.
Trishla pulled out all stops for this one, with a large cast, live music, elaborate costumes, animation and a wacky imagination that hit the target. As the children on stage dash about all over the world, with Yago in pursuit, children in the audience enjoyed the madness. A bit too long for today’s abbreviated attention spans, it did nevertheless have kids coming out speaking like Sesorians, with an ‘it’ added after every word.
This was one of the few children’s plays that had a some kids in the cast and that always works better than grown-ups in shorts and frocks imitating children. (Manav Kaul pulled it off brilliantly in his Laal Pencil, managing to find actors who looked like children without much effort. Om Katare’s school going boy in Listen to Me Please was hopelessly miscast.)
If children (and accompanying grown-ups) were to vote for the most popular stage villain at the summer season of children’s plays this year, they’d undoubtedly pick Yago from Zinga Zinga Roses, played by Neil Bhoopalam in a strange Star Trek meets Michael Jackson outfit, with cheerful abandon and a weapon as deadly as stinky armpits.
Written and directed by Trishla Patel, the play was about the adventures of little Zinga from Planet Sesor, who has to travel to Earth, and with the help of his robot Pi and some Earth kids, save the Rose that can save his planet from evil Yago.
Trishla pulled out all stops for this one, with a large cast, live music, elaborate costumes, animation and a wacky imagination that hit the target. As the children on stage dash about all over the world, with Yago in pursuit, children in the audience enjoyed the madness. A bit too long for today’s abbreviated attention spans, it did nevertheless have kids coming out speaking like Sesorians, with an ‘it’ added after every word.
This was one of the few children’s plays that had a some kids in the cast and that always works better than grown-ups in shorts and frocks imitating children. (Manav Kaul pulled it off brilliantly in his Laal Pencil, managing to find actors who looked like children without much effort. Om Katare’s school going boy in Listen to Me Please was hopelessly miscast.)
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