Comments on: Review: Urban Turban

By: What Others Say: Urban Turban | DramaDose

What Others Say: Urban Turban | DramaDose — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:36:46 +0000

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By: Nivedita

Nivedita — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:37:33 +0000

Haha- maybe my dislike for them is now bordering on the creepy and irrational, but no, that’s the end of my Evam adventures!
Cheers!

By: Shuchi

Shuchi — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:55:55 +0000

Whoa that bad huh? Thanks for writing, I hope it was cathartic for you.

I wasn’t too impressed with The Importance Of Being Earnest either. Here’s what I wrote about it: http://www.dramadose.com/evam-the-importance-of-being-earnest/

Somehow, inspite of all the rough edges, Evam works for me.

I’ve heard nice things about The Odd Couple, haven’t seen it yet. Maybe that’s the one with a chance to bring Evam in your good books!

By: Nivedita

Nivedita — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:21:07 +0000

Hi… Googled Evam after their show Urban Turban and came across your blog. Just thought I’d share my views (unasked for, of course!). Anyway, this is what I wrote on their blog after I went to see the performance:

“”I’d attended your staging of “The Importance of Being Earnest” a couple of months ago at Rangashankara,Bangalore, walked out of it cursing the inept and utterly shoddy handling and production of the play, and of course, vowed never to attend an Evam production again.

Little did I know that last Friday I would unwittingly attend yet another one at the Alliance Francaise- Urban Turban.
Never in my theatre- going life have I sat through 2 hours of such inane, un-funny witless drivel (I could come up with more adjectives, only more unprintable). If you had staged this at any half- respectable comedy club on any other world stage, believe me, you’d have been booed off by minute five.

30 MINUTES of lame jokes about one man’s dribbling, another 30 listening to the most unimaginative account of a foreigner’s Indian adventure ever (India is hot, and Indian food spicy, we nod our heads and cows roam the roads- tell me something else for #@$%’s sake!!), another 30 about some lame male-bonding by a rank amateur, and the last 30 about God-knows-what, because by then, I’d got my Ipod out.

Unbelievable that you have the gall, as you yourself said, to charge money for this c#$p!

You all are very smug about your sponsorships, and your fancy graphics, and your Power Point presentations. My advice? Use that money to invest in some good scripts (face it- your actors are no Jay Lenos or Tina Feys, or heck, even Russell Peters), some trained actors, better production design, and yes, some lessons in humility.

I don’t think this review will be published on this blog, but even if it isn’t, I’d be happy because then I’d know that someone has read it…”"”

Well, I’m not looking for a response from them really-I just wanted to get my frustration at their amateurishness off my chest!

By: Shuchi

Shuchi — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:20:42 +0000

Hi Shruthi, Good point about the set and clothes. The minimal/casual look complemented the humongous turban very well.

By: Shruthi

Shruthi — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:07:37 +0000

This play was more a stand up comedy style than a play as such. Their sets and costumes were apt for their title. Like Shuchi mentioned Shannon’s act was more like ‘I’ve heard this before’. Overall it was a good show

By: Urban Turban: New show each time? | DramaDose

Urban Turban: New show each time? | DramaDose — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:24:42 +0000

[...] of the show to be held at Alliance Française, Chennai on 5th/6th Dec is rather different from the one I saw at Kyra, Bangalore. The Hindu’s article confirms [...]