Prantik Theatre celebrated its 16th founding anniversary through staging the troupe’s acclaimed production Ahetuk Kichchha at the Studio Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Saturday.
The troupe had plans for a colourful and spectacular celebrations programme but due to the country-wide blockade, for which many of the invited guests could not come, the troupe celebrated the day through staging their play, informed a member of the troupe.
A full-hall audience enjoyed Prantik Theatre’s Ahetuk Kichchha which satirises the political situation of the country through a comic depiction of absurd activities of the leaders of the country.
Written and directed by Kamruzzaman Liton, the play shows a number of state officers, like police, doctors and others, busy in pleasing the leader who gives an irrational order of taking care of a particular pregnant crow.
Even though the leader does not appeare on stage, his presence is pervasive as the officers frantically try to satiate the ludicrous demand of the leader.
The frenzied activities of a police sergeant and his assistant, the rowdy and rude personal secretary of the leader, and the proud doctor caused rounds of laughter at the hall.
Some of the illogical activities like the decision to evict the inhabitants of a slum, on which the crow has taken shelter, and the comic dialogues were the main attractions of the play.
The play, thereby, hinted at the state and its leaders’ act of creating a mountain out of a mole when the common peoples’ lives are at stake.
Shahriar Bakul, Sheikh Nurun Nabi, Noman Uddin, Mala Talukder, Maksuda Parveen and others of the troupe acted in the play.
‘We wanted to arrange a lively celebrations programme but the ongoing political situation barred us from doing so. That is why we chose to stage Ahetuk Kichchha which very much goes with the present situation of the country,’ said Kamruzzaman Liton.
The audience also expressed their delight after the show. ‘It was a nice comic play. Really enjoyable,’ said Shahdat Hossain, a regular theatre-goer.
‘Even though the actors were not that impressive, the story of the play was amusing,’ expressed another audience Nasima Raihan.
-With New Age input
