Theatre review

Published December 2, 2015

THIS refers to the review (Nov 30) of the NAPA Young Director’s highly creative adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s play Ghosts.Your reviewer refers inter alia to ‘the background music varying between symphonies and opera music.’

Without wishing to be pedantic, one can hope for at least a minimal precision of terminology. At no point was any symphony or opera used in the background music, most of which was taken from cinematic musical themes.

The only classical bit was the opening bars of Mozart’s Requiem — which is a cathedral mass, and neither a symphony nor an opera. This mass happened to be used in the background of the film Amadeus, which was about the life of the composer Mozart.

The NAPA production, by the way, was outstanding, a fact that does not come across strongly enough in this review.

Salman Tarik Kureshi

Karachi

Published in Dawn, December 2nd, 2015

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