Word: goa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Playwright Sherman, who has not made much of a splash in the decade since Bent, provides in A Madhouse in Goa the best new play of a fecund London year that has already brought new efforts from half-a-dozen top dramatists. Structurally, Sherman's show is two one-acts, but they are linked by one of the cleverest devices in memory. The first piece, A Table for a King, is an exquisitely painful tale of betrayals involving a pathetically dignified Mississippi matron, a sweetly awkward American college boy recovering from a thwarted homosexual infatuation, a casually seductive waiter...
...bearded and bejeaned character sipping a drink at a bar in the coastal resort area of Goa looked like just another tourist. So too did the man who greeted him cheerily, "Hello, Charles. How are you?" The drinker reached for his revolver, and his interlocutor fell upon him and announced his arrest. Thus did Inspector Madhukar Zende, an ace Bombay detective, seize Charles Sobhraj, the international criminal who three weeks earlier had escaped from New Delhi's maximum-security Tihar Central Jail by slipping his guards drugged candies during a mock birthday party...
Midway through the talks, the leaders repaired to the seaside resort of Goa for three days. The respite, and the resolution of the Grenadian issue, may have put the participants in a sunnier mood for their New Delhi discussions this week. An end to the grumpiness seemed quite likely, since the talks were expected to turn to subjects on which the members are mostly in agreement: the independence of Namibia from South Africa (which the Commonwealth supports), and the declaration of an independent state two weeks ago by ethnic Turks in Commonwealth-member Cyprus (which the body deplores...
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...regiment founded a century ago, was pink gin-deep in British officers. Some of them, though, looked film-familiar: Gregory Peck, David Niven, Roger Moore and Trevor Howard. The pseudo sahibs were shooting The Sea Wolves, about a daring 1943 attack on a German communications ship anchored off Goa. How did it feel to re-create the days of empire? Said Niven to his Indian hosts, in a line that would never have been heard at the old Roshanara: "I'm surprised you don't kick us out for what we did when we were here...