Sharpenicity

CONSTELLATION THEATER COMPANY --THE FIRE AND THE RAIN Swami Vivakananda said it best. Abstract ancient practices must become living poetry in everyday life, that out of “hopelessly intricate myths must come concrete moral forms…”  so that even a child might grasp it! That is exactly what the Girish Karnad, India’s most celebrated contemporary award-winning playwright, screenwriter, film actor and director has done with his play The Fire and The Rain.  And that is what Constellation Theatre brings to the stage in a stellar production that everyone can grasp.   What seems at first a love store between Brahman youth Aravsu  (Dallas tolentino)  and tribal woman Nittilai (Lynette Rathnam) in the seventh year  of no rain, quickly spans over many places and times, interweaving many stories of complex relationships and emotions between friends, brothers, spouses, and parents.    Jealousy and power struggles, love and lust, sacrifice and vengeance are all familiar ingr