Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore’s Shey will be staged at the Experimental Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy at 6:30pm tomorrow. Shey is the 30th production of popular theatre troupe Padatik Natya Sangsad. Tomorrow’s staging will be their 14th show of the play. The play has been adapted and directed by Debashish Ghosh from Tagore’s collection of fantasy tales written by Tagore during the last days of his life for his nine-year-old granddaughter Poopey.
In the 15 stories of the Shey collection, Tagore has created endless fantasies and to keep the flow, Shey as a character appears each time in a new story. Tagore’s granddaughter Poopey is also a character in the series.
In Padatik’s production, six tales from Tagore’s Shey series have been explored. The tales depict activities of different imaginary human and animal characters. However, the stories reveal the astonishing wit, imagination and sense of humour that the author possessed even when he was well into his seventies. Morium Hossain Koli, Selim, Kamal, Mamun, Ivy, Faysal, Al-Amin, Chinmoy, and others will perform in the play.
Padatik Natya Sansad premiered Shey on December 9, 2011 at the Mohakaron Binodon Sangstha Theatre Festival in Agortola, India. The troupe also staged the play in different venues in India and in Bangladesh.
-With New Age input
