Entertainment of Sunday, 8 May 2011
Source: Joy Online
By popular request, the International Women’s Fair presents Nii Commey’s rib-cracking, knee-slapping and sidesplitting romantic stage comedy, ‘Je M’appelle Romance (when the heart frowns.)’
The disturbing stage masterpiece which was premiered at the National Theater during the Valentine season is set for a re-run as a result of popular demand by patrons who could not watch, and also by those who never get exhausted watching the comedy.
Je M’appelle Romance is tagged as a disturbing theatre masterpiece that ridicules the ills of spouses’ failure to come clean in new relationships and the ramifications this poses. The play also pokes fun at the conservative and liberal standpoints on contemporary wedding ceremonies. The romantic play has didactic thematic concerns which are so real in our modern society. The story mirrors the day to day real life in relationships.
Je M’appelle Romance carries a simple, but packed plot about Famiyeh Boison, a Civil Engineer, whose house is suddenly on fire because he has finally retired from ‘active politics of womanizing and decided to marry pretty Kuukua, a Legal Practitioner.
In a parallel plot, Obodai, his best man, a high profile unromantic character who rates women deadlier than snakes, finds himself in relationship with Tina, whom he describes as ‘ a self- styled girlfriend’. He’s ever ready to pop champagne to celebrate the day his girlfriend will ask them to break up. He has also indicated that if in case the wedding comes on, Tina should tell her pastor to omit the vow ‘till death doeth us part’ since it is too binding a statement. How do these two friends untangle themselves from this romantic mesh?
The cast, who mostly featured in Romantic Nonsense and Eclipse of the Heart are upbeat about this play.
‘Anybody who watches je M’appelle Romance is assured of 100% guarantee value for their money’
Characterization is profound that each character comes in so distinct and ad introduce. With all its ingredients such as conflicts, suspense, intrigues, ironies, slapsticks, trust Nii Commey, humour is paramount in this showpiece.
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