Set on a river island in 1970s Goa, the play Loretta is a tribute to tiatr, an old Portuguese form of theatre characterised by live music and dance, sharp satire and side shows between acts, where the characters speak directly to the audience about day-to-day affairs and politics. An English-Konkani melodrama written by Pundalik Naik and directed by Sunil Shanbag, Loretta is the story of a young Anglo-Indian woman (Rozzlin Pereira) from Bombay who falls in love with the language and culture of her boyfriend, Raphael’s (Sattvic) hometown in Goa. She decides to settle there, but first, she has to win over Raphael’s father Antonio (Abhijit Bhor), a great proponent of the Konkani language. “Loretta is our tribute to the many great tiatrists, to the wonderful spirit of the performers, and to the loyal audiences that keep tiatr alive,” says Shanbag in his ‘Director’s Note’. Loretta will be staged in Mumbai on 16 November at the Bandra Festival 2016

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November 2016