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The eight-day studio theatre festival organised by Northern University Bangladesh based troupe named Northern Theatre ended on Friday.Traditional lathials from Nababganj, Dhaka displayed their tricks with sticks as a major attraction of the concluding day programme at the Studio Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy.
Sarbanam presented a number of folk songs such as Jhilmil jhilmil kore and Andhar raite chander.
Dr Abu Yusuf Abdullah, chairman of Northern University Bangladesh, was present at closing ceremony as chief guest while renowned artistes Shimul Mustafa and Ananta Hira were present as special guests.
Following the discussion, the host troupe staged the 7th show of its well-acclaimed production Krishna Shakun based on Kazi Nazrul Islam’s story titled Bhuter Bhoy.
Directed by Shawkat Hossain, the play features angels, whose longing for leisure and comfort caused them to lose their angelic power.
A flock of mischievous ghosts takes the chance and takes over the heaven ousting the angels. The angles become divided in two groups: one group wants to resolve the situation in peaceful way while another group wants to take arsenal action against the ghosts.
‘Nazrul wrote the story to educate people the demerits of idleness, greed and leisure. He also depicted the ghosts as the harmful tendencies of human beings and the events of the story also symbolically represent the struggle for independence of the Indian subcontinent from the British colonial power. However, the story has a universal appeal’, said the director.
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The eight-day studio theatre festival organised by Northern Theatre, a Northern University based troupe, was inaugurated on Friday at the Studio Theatre Hall through staging of Selim AlDeen’s play titled Putra.
Professor emeritus Anisuzzaman was present at the programme as chief guest. Secretary general of Bangladesh Group Theatre Federation Jhuna Chowdhury was present as special guest.
‘I really appreciate the large initiative taken by a university based troupe, professor Anisuzzaman said.
More encouragement was waiting for the private university based troupe. ‘We will consider their BGTF membership,’ Jhuna Chowdhry said.
The discussion session was followed by Putra, staged by Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy.
Al Deen’s emotional narrative features pain of a couple, who lost their only son at an early age. Al Deen’s close associates describe that the playwright had written Putra from his personal bitter experience – his short-lived son survived for just 15 minutes.
The play ‘Putra’ centres on a couple named Siraj and Abchha, whose son Manik committs suicide two years ago at an early age.
In a cold winter night, the couple collects and burns some trunks of a mango tree where Manik committed suicide. In fact, the smoke of the mango trunk leads the couple to recall bitter memory that takes them to a surrealistic world.
Director Mohammed Jasim Uddin had successfully created the surrealistic world on stage. Spontaneous performance by Bakar Bakul in the role of Siraj and Enamtara Saki in the role of Abchha could touch the emotion of the audience, especially in the scene in which the woman recalled the bitter experience that no imam had agreed to attend Manik’s janaza.
The couple’s emotion reaches the peak when they regret the death of their son again on the very day after burning the mango trunk where Manik’s body was buried.
Abchha becomes so frustrated with the incident that the crazy woman leaves her house, husband and everything.
‘I really enjoyed the show,’ Shamim Ahmed, an audience, told New Age.
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