


The two short plays presented by The Performing Arts Company was a serious
foray into serious theatre. "The Waiting Room" and "Love Letters" which
went on the boards at the British School auditorium brought three gifted
actors whose performances held the audience in a grip with their
interpretation and characterization of roles that called for nothing but
the best. Perhaps more outstanding than the performance of the two females
was the two roles Mohamed Adamaly played, which were those of two totally
different characters. In the Waiting Room he plays the part of a somewhat
effeminate man who encounters the wife of the man he lived with in the
strangest of circumstances. In the other he plays an ageing man who reads
with his friend from childhood the letters and cards they wrote to each
other through a lifetime. This performance called for much by the way of
expression, body language and control and modulation of voices, as the
entire play is acted seated on two chairs, with no physical action on the
stage. In this play written by A. R. Gurney Adam had excellent support
from Tracy Holsinger, who plays the part of a wealthy woman and comes from
a different background through as children they came from the same
neighbourhood.
In the Waiting Room Adamalay had Ranmali Mirchandani play the role of a rich wife who has been through the trauma of loosing her husband to this man, who she is with both of whom are there to identify the body of the man they knew so well.
The first nighters could not equal the two outfits Ranmali and Tracy wore on stage. In charge of costumes and set were Yasmin Akbarally and Nafisa Amiruddeen, who did an impressive job on both counts.