Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy’s puppet team is scheduled to perform in the Indonesia International Puppet Festival this September.
A total of 85 puppet teams from 50 countries will participate in the festival, which will be held from September 01 to 08 at
Bali and Jakarta in Indonesia.
From Bangladesh a 10 member team, under the supervision of professor Dr Rashid Haroon, will depart on August 31.
For the festival, Dr Rashid Haroon, a teacher of drama and dramatics department at Jahangirnagar University, has written a script titled Tales of Bangladesh compiling a number of stories featuring the country. Haroon is also directing the production.
As part of the preparation, the puppet team staged the production on Friday and Saturday at the Studio Theatre Hall of BSA.
The production begins with a patriotic song Dhonodhanya pushpebhara. It then evolves with a humorous conversation between the narrator and the korta (a puppet).
The production has short tales of our country of farmers, villages and villagers, rivers, the Sundarbans, of language day, of Bengali culture and a fairytale.
Overall, the production has amused people of all age groups.
All the tales are told by the narrators while different amusing puppets tread and dance on stage.
The production includes songs like Teer hara ei, Amader deshta swapnapuri, Joy bangla banglar joy, Salam Salam and others.
‘The 55-minute production is a packet of witty tales and songs that represent the people, history and culture of our country’, Dr Rashid Haroon told New Age.
‘All the members of the team are excited and they are working hard for the production. I hope the Tales of Bangladesh reveal our country in the positive light as I have intended, in the international puppet show festival’, added Dr Rashid Haroon.
-With New Age input
