St Helena's College celebrates…
21st June 2007, Music day, cool grey Vacoas, opens its arms and warmly welcomes into a Fantastic setting for the play written by the whiz kid of Kreol Playwriting, Tahir Hussein Pirbhay and interpreted by astonishingly talented students of St Helena's College. This is his first stage after winning the first prize with Ministry of Arts and Culture Kreol playwriting competition last year. So just imagine the excitement of the author and the pleasant surprise to see the four youth of Forms I to III, of this college acting in this play after weeks of rehearsals. The teachers have been of great guidance too.
Title : Suval blanc - 4-Act Play, in Kreol
Subject : Respect towards our grand parents
" … enn vie dimounn dan enn lakaz, li kouma ene profet "
The credit goes to the directors, Miss Shamila Warsalee, teachers and also the students of St Helena's college to encourage another Art form to mark an important date which 21st June has gradually become. And the college had also invited primary school pupils of the region into a get together of their students council day. The target was to encourage the débrouillardise of the students in different activities, other than the usual academics as stated by Miss Warsalee.
Mr Pirbhay's play has substance to guide, teach and help us understand our elders in another light. It's full of humanism, bold poetry in kreol language and the message is easily conveyed to one and all in this too busy, too indifferent and violent world that we are living in. This play says : Halt, take a deep breath and let us be a little more human. Written in the style of a George Orwell's Animal Farm, with animal characters, set in an American Indian scenario… the ingredients are present to please the young public, the adults and, as well, children. An insight into the play depicts a very modern society flaw… the rejection of Elders, the non respect, the generation gap problem and, despite that, the re-emergence of values in youth.
Instead of becoming some "Lost Angels of a ruined Paradise", Youth, given a chance, can become huge lighthouses.
They have the drive, the emotions, the talent and the expressions needed. They just need a platform, a framework and some real good guides…
Salaam-E-Jawaan
Secretrose
Published on the 2nd July 2007 on Lemauricien
