Sri Lanka
Moor Family Genealogy
MARUZOOQ - Family #313
1 Maruzooq
2 A M Maruzooq (Deal Place) + Marzoona
3
Ereefa Maruzooq + Dr
Fahmy Kaleel (217,218)
4 Muhammad Nawaz Kaleel
4 Muhammad Hejaz Kaleel
4 Muhammad Hisham Kaleel
4 Ayesha Sameeha Kaleel
4 Faizul Hassen Kaleel
3
Mifthiya Maruzooq + Mohamed Hassan Husain , d: Mar 29, 2018
4 Farana
4 Hafsa
4 Samir
Obit:
Mohamed Hassan Husain, beloved
husband of Mifthia, precious father of Farana, Hafsa and Samir;
father-in-law of Farzarn and Sukanti,
beloved grandfather of Amaan, Zaffar,
Lana and Saniya; brother of late Saliha,
Late Noor, Nizam, Late Nicer, Haleema
& Faiza, Nazim & Nowfer, brother-in-law of Ereefa
& Fahmy, Mazeena &
Amir, Mahdi & Shahana, Mumtaz
& Yusuf & Zahara. Passed
away peacefully on the 29th of March 2018. Janaza will leave 85/7 B3, Senanayake
Ave, Nawala at 9am on 30th March 2018. Burial: Dehiwala Muslim Burial Grounds, 06, Mosque Rd, Off Hospital
Rd, Dehiwala.
3
Mazeena Maruzooq + Amir
3 Mumtaz
Maruzooq + Yusuf
3 Zahara
Maruzooq
3 Mahdi
Maruzooq + Shahana Parveen Osman (19)
4 Ahmed Taariq
Maruzook
4 Talaal Ahmed
Maruzook
DN Nov 11
2005:
Review:
A murder? A mystery?
Madness!
Perhaps a bit
of everything! Certainly slapstick and farce, buffoonery and
comedy. This was the Murder Mystery evening staged by the Bishop's
College PPA at their annual dinner on 6th November at the Colombo Plaza. (That
was the reason why we couldn't get into the parking lot that night!)
When I was asked, some months ago, by a classmate if I would
participate in a dinner theatre production for the Bishop's College PPA's
annual dinner, I said yes without batting an eyelid. I had no idea what dinner
theatre was! So I had no idea what I was in for - and that was probably the
best way to set about the mad rush we had in the end!
I do recall
saying that I wanted to see the script first. It's just as well that I don't
always mean what I say because there was none! There was a general idea that
was generally explained to a general meeting of generously volunteering old
girls. Old? Some of them are so very young! (No, I'm
not old. Yet. I still have a little way to go to reach
my middle ages!)
And then we
went into rehearsals. These were the most unusual sort of rehearsals I've ever
been to. I've been to brisk ones where the time flew. I've been to nervy ones
where we were sure we were going to make asses of ourselves.
And I've been
to sluggish ones where people didn't know their parts or hadn't brought their
music/scripts or simply hadn't all turned up. But these unscripted,
unstructured rehearsals threw us upon the resources of our own wits and
imaginations.
The
characters that subsequently strutted, sashayed or stumbled into the Colombo
Plaza on The Night were a consequence of hours of negotiation and
brainstorming. (Be generous about this and don't make the obvious comments
about brains, okay?)
The characters
were clearly defined and identified by unambiguous names: Grand Dame Lolita
Looney (Angela Seneviratna), Maapilla
Matamoko (Mohamed Adamally),
Deshabandu Kabala Kondalage
Hiribiris, the Honourable
Minister of Donor Relations and Self Service (Dominic Kellar),
J Blow (Laila Gunasekera),
Nicolle Tittman (Terina Perera), Penelope Screws (Zahara Maruzook) and so on.
Dinner
theatre is supposed to make it possible to "combine professional and
amateur talent," (I got that from http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-dinner-theater.htm,
because I wanted to look like I know what I'm talking about) so that's why we
had such a mix of well knowns and unknowns.
We had Jerome
de Silva supporting us by playing La Jigg-me, a gay
lover, Sean Amarasekera playing Esunthe
Ferrari, a Spanish drug baron who wouldn't make an honest woman of his girl friend ("I took precautions but one of my
swimmers got loose," he said at rehearsal), Malini
Tambyah playing Malini de
Silva, fashion icon of the '60's, and Asma Jeevunjee playing Vasanthi Lingamless, wife of a famous plastic surgeon. More well knowns and unknowns thrown together!
Would it
work, though? That was the big question! The only proof was to be in the
pudding of our opening/closing night, the only night on which we would perform.
And on The Night, we assembled in the lobby for cocktails before dinner. While
we were meeting and greeting the evening's performers strolled, staggered and
snuck around in the lobby for about 20 minutes, so the ever growing audience
could begin to grasp plot and characters.
Dinner
theatre is meant to be interactive (that's what the website says), so we
mingled with our friends, teachers, elders and the next few generations as well
(while knocking back a few cocktails!). Then we moved into the banquet hall for
the rest of the performance, which consisted of a murder and an inquiry into
whodunit.
So, did it
work? Well, from my vantage point - which was mostly behind the platform,
facing the audience - yes, it did. The plot twisted and writhed its way through
multiple motives and possible murderers like an Agatha Christie.
Characters
were grilled by Maapilla, the Head of Security of the
Exalted Emperor of the Imperial Kingdom of Hubla Hua, His Majesty Mikhail Kutiskokoff
(who thought up these names!) played by Deshan Devasanayagam.
Like peeling
an onion, layer by layer, the audience was taken deeper and deeper into the
self centred machinations of characters young and old
alike. Just as it seemed as if the whole crisis had been caused by an accident,
the truth - and the murderer - was revealed. (Ask an old girl who was there,
okay? Don't expect all the answers from me!)
We had all
manner of support in the short process. There were people who helped with the
characters, the sound, the filming. . .
The filming? Was this a play or a film?
Ah, well!
It's Bishop's College, right? It was dinner theatre with one major creative
edge! Nafeesa Amiruddin,
who coordinated, managed and directed this production, filmed certain sections
of the play and replayed them on a screen during the interrogation.
Thus there
was no way out, no wriggle room for any of the characters. They simply couldn't
deny talking about poisoning His (obnoxious) Imperial Majesty. The device of
clips played over during the performance helped to strengthen the plot and
ensure that anyone who may have missed out on part of the earlier developments
had a second chance to pick them up.
So, as I was
saying, we had all manner of support - people who did the sound, the filming,
gave specialist technical advice on how to handle the screening of sections of
the play. Thanks, guys - you're not named in the programme,
but we couldn't have pulled this off without you! There were also people who
helped us throw together the most outrageous costumes: the emperor's wife, Kastrina Kutiskokoff, played by Shanuki de Alwis, shed black
feathers from her boa all the way, and two of the harem ladies looked like
something out of "The Great Gatsby"!
And there
were our families, friends, teachers and the extended family of Bishop's
College. Without their support, the 31 of us who acted and the dozen or so who
managed the performance and the event couldn't possibly have had the fun we
did. Fun as it was for those who watched, it was more so for those of us who
arranged, managed, coordinated and/or acted. We're planning a cast party now -
hmm - wonder what's on the menu this time ...!
INAUGURATED IN 1896
Bishop's College
Past Pupils'
Association
Executive Committee - 2004/2005
Principal : Hemamalie
Bibile
Board
Representative : Charika Muttiah
Advisors
: Ann Anthonis & Ramola
Sivasundaram
President
: Mazeena Lukmanjee
Vice
Presidents : Lorinda Fernando & Sunjeevani Kotakadeniya
Joint
Secretaries : Sunella Dissanayeke & Zahara Maruzook
Treasurer:
Dilrukshi Mohanani
Assistant
Treasurer : Delani Pietersz
Committee
:
Immediate
Past President : Asma Jeevunjee
Membership
Co-ordinator : Anne Coorey
Indrani Dias
Farah Faleel
Michele Wickramasekera
Roshan Wijesinghe
Shyama Perera
Ayoma de Silva
Shanthini Jayatilake
Farana Sikkander
Sherine John
Sivahamy Sathiamoorthy
Shamini Sambandan
http://www.bishopscollege.lk/pastpupil.htm