Loko Natyadal has been invited this year to perform at the prestigious American Association of Community Theatre World Fest-2014,
which will be held from June 16 to 21.
The theatre troupe will stage two shows of its famous production Kanjush consecutively on June 17 and 18 at the Venice Theatre in Florida.
Loko Natyadal’s Konjush is an adaptation of The Miser by the famous French playwright Moliere. Popular theatre personality and veteran actor Tarik Anam Khan has adapted the play that has been directed by Liaquat Ali Lucky, the troupe president and the director general of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy.
The adapted play Konjush has a history of being staged more than 640 times by the troupe. No other play in Bangladesh has been staged as many times.
The recipe for this success perhaps lies in the comedy punched into the play through the local Dhakaiya dialect and the hilarious central character Haider Ali Khan that the audience found greatly amusing.
An 11 member team of Loko Natyadal will fly to Florida on the eve of the festival, said Mashud Sumon of Loko Natyadal.
Konjush has earlier been staged at the Monaco Theatre Festival in 2013.
Besides Loko Natyadal, theatre troupes from 17 countries will stage productions at the festival.
-With New Age input
