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FRIEND: Were you in the play as well or did you just write it?
              MALALA: I did both. I played Romeo as a civil servant
                interviewing people for a job.
              FRIEND: OK, and what happened next?
              MALALA: The first candidate is a beautiful girl, and he asks
                her very easy questions such as, 'How many wheels does
                a bicycle have?' When she replies, 'Two,' he says, 'You are
                so brilliant.' The next candidate is a man, so Romeo asks
                him impossible things like, 'Without leaving your chair, tell
                me the make of the fan in the room above us.' 'How could
                I possibly know?' asks the candidate. 'You're telling me
                you have a PhD and you don't know!' replies Romeo. He
                decides to give the job to the girl.
              FRIEND: Oh, I get it now. Who played the other characters?
              MALALA: Moniba played the girl, of course, and another
                classmate, Attiya, played the part of my assistant to add
                some salt, pepper and masala with her witty asides.
              FRIEND: How did the audience react?
              MALALA: Everyone laughed a lot.
              FRIEND: Really? Did you expect that?
              MALALA: No, I was a bit nervous, but the audience loved the
                play. I guess I should have known because I like to mimic
                people, and during breaks, my friends used to beg me to
                impersonate our teachers.
              FRIEND: I’m sure everyone had a great time, even though
                you didn’t expect it.
              MALALA: Yes, with all the bad stuff going on in those days,
                we needed small, small reasons to laugh.

                                     impersonate
                                     masala                 fan (n.): ventilador
                                      Glossary on           make (n.): marca
                                      page 92               PhD (n.): doctorado/
                                                             estudio de posgrado









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