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Silhouettes of two performers on a lit stage between red curtains, with a trumpet, the masks of comedy and tragedy and the words “Goan Tiatr, Since 1892”.
125 Years of Tiatr
Tiatr, from the Portuguese word teatro, is Goa’s most popular form of drama, loved wherever Goans have settled in India and abroad. It was born in Bombay: Lucazinho Ribeiro of Sokolwaddo, Assagao, in Bardez, with Joao Agostinho Fernandes and others, staged the first tiatr, “Italian Bhurgo”, based on an English opera, at Easter on 17 April 1892.
A tiatr has music and song but is not a musical drama. Its story runs in six or seven parts, each called a pordho, and between them come two or three songs, kantaram, each on a subject of its own. In the mid twentieth century writers such as Alexinho de Candolim, Minguel Rod, C. Alvares, M. Boyer, Prem Kumar, J. P. Souzalin, Nelson Afonso, Aristedes Dias, Remy Colaso and John Claro gave it its scripts.
India Post marked 125 years of tiatr on 17 April 2018 with stamps of ₹5 and ₹25 and a ₹30 miniature sheet, designed by Gulistaan. Security Printing Press, Hyderabad printed 600,700 of the ₹5, 502,700 of the ₹25 and 1.10 lakh sheets.
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