Mahakal Theatre Festival
An Indian, two local troupes to stage Tagore plays today
So far six Tagore plays have been staged in the ongoing theatre festival arranged by theatre troupe Mohakal Natya Sampraday.
Today it is a Tagore day too. Three more Tagore plays will be staged at three different venues. Two original Tagore plays and one adaptation of Tagore’s play will be staged today.
Theatre will stage Tagore’s Muktodhara at the National Theatre Hall and the host troupe Mohakal Natya Sampraday will stage Nishimon Bisorjon at the Experimental Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy and the Kolkata-based theatre troupe Sharabhuj will stage Daakghar at the Chhayanaut Auditorium. Tagore’s Muktodhara has been directed by Laila Nupur Azad. The play shows that the human pride and the misuse of machine are the two main factors that lead to the sufferings of human being. The plot of the play centres on a dam, a king and his subjects. King Ranajit lives in Uttarkut. To control his subjects in faraway Shibtorai he decides to make a dam on the river which flows to Shibtorai. Thus the king disrupts the flow of water on which the King’s subjects are dependent.
Mohakal Natya Sampraday’s Nishimon Bisorjon is based on Tagore’s play Bisorjon. The play has been adapted by Anan Jaman and directed by Ashik Rahman Lion. The play features the clash between fundamentalism and progress. It shows how religious superstition and religious fundamentalism create obstacles on the way to the social progress. The play starts with Nishimon, a girl from northern Bangladesh, narrating her tragic story to the river Gomti.
Sharabhuj’s Daakghar is also a Tagore play. Directed by Tarun Prodhan, the play has a heart-wrenching tale of an ailing child, Amal, yearning for freedom from the confines of his room through a window that lets in the world outside.
-With New Age input
