national theater festival

The national theater festival was totally a different experience for me. Visually it was so enriching that it grabbed the attention of everyone. The festival started off with the drama MACBETH that captured the deep concerns and desires in the mind of macbeth. The play was given a new mold by the director. Emotions and conflicts in the mind of the characters are effectively externalized that the audience felt the trauma of the character.The monologues of the characters are also effectively portrayed.

in full bloom

lone one

100 yrs of SOLITUDE

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells the story of the
Buendia family and the fictional town of Macondo. The first part of the book's
opening line, "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aurehano
Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover
ice," serves to catapult the reader into the future, while the second phrase pushes the reader into the past. From this point onward, however, the book moves in fairly
straight forward chronological order, with only occasional forays into the past or the future.
In the beginning, the town is young; it is a place where no one is over thirty years old and no one has died yet. Except for occasional visits from Melquiades and his troop of gypsies, the three hundred inhabitants of Macondo are completely isolated from the rest of the world. Although Jose Arcadio leads a band of townspeople on a mission to try to establish contact with the outside world, he is unsuccessful. Later, Ursula sets off to find her son Jose Arcadio, who has unexpectedly run away with the gypsies. Although Ursula does not find her son, she finds a route to another town, connecting Macondo to the world. As a result, people begin to arrive in Macondo, including a governmental representative, Don Apolinar Moscote. Aureliano falls in love with Apolinar's beautiful child, Remedios.

The middle portion of the book includes accounts of the seemingly endless civil wars
and of the activities of Aureliano Segundo and Jose Arcadio Segundo, the twin sons of
the late Arcadio. When the wars are finally over, Colonel Aureliano Buendia retires to his home, where he leads a solitary life making little gold fishes. His solitude increases and he is overcome with nostalgia and memories. After recalling once again the day that his father took him to see ice, he dies.

In the final pages of the novel, Aureliano finally is able to read the manuscripts left by Melquiades years earlier. As he does so, he realizes that what he is reading is the story of his family. As he finishes the text, a giant wind sweeps away the town of Macondo, erasing it from time, space, and memory.

too old but too gud