Panaji: The Tiatr Academy of Goa organized its fourth competition in acting on Saturday at TAG's conference hall, at the Campal Trade Centre. The competition was held in four categories -monologue-comedy acting, dialogue - comedy acting, monologue - non-comedy acting and dialogue - non-comedy acting:
The following were declared winners:
Monologue - Comedy
1st prize: Ankita C Sawant (Dovornnem) 3,000 plus certificate
2nd prize: Flannan Pereira (Piso Waiter) 2,000 plus certificate
Best script: Umesh S Kamat (Newspaper) 2,000 plus certificate
Dialogue - Comedy
1st prize: Netwin Antao & Natasha Pereira (Interview) 5,000 plus certificates
2nd prize: Fr Savio D'Costa & Valentina Monteiro 3,000 plus certificates (Apunn pixem zalam ani dusreankui pixim korta)
Best script: Fr Milton Rodrigues 2,000 plus certificate
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Monologue- Non-Comedy
1st prize: Snehal Shetye (Cancer) 3,000 plus certificate
2nd prize: Veda Desai (Girl child) 2,000 plus certificate
Best script: Antonet de Sousa 2,000 plus certificate
Fr Savio D'Costa was awarded a certificate of appreciation for his script 'Maddacho Ulhas'. Shruti Santosh Powar was awarded a certificate of appreciation for her performance in 'Student'.
Dialogue-Non Comedy
1st prize: Snehal Shetye & Deepika Karishetty (Helmet) 5,000 plus certificates
2nd prize: Joylin Barbosa & Pooja R Sonar (Property) 3,000 plus certificates
Best script: Antonet de Sousa (Property) 2,000 plus certificate
The competition was judged by theatre personalities Dominic D'Costa and Pradeep Naik. President of Tiatr Academy of Goa Agostinho Temudo, gave away the prizes and certificates to the winners along with jury members and TAG member secretary Jose Alexandre Rodrigues. tnn