STUDIO THEATRE FEST
Waiting for Godot staged
A Bangladeshi adaptation of Irish playwright Samuel Beckett’s classic Waiting for Godot was staged on Sunday at the Studio Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy as part of the eight-day studio theatre festival organised by Northern University Bangladesh based troupe Northern Theatre.
The host troupe staged the play adapted by
Rashedul Islam Babu and Mustafizur Rahman.Though names of the five characters and storyline have been kept as they were in the original play, director M Showkat Hossain has presented them in a local context. All the central characters like Vladimir, Estragon, Pozzo and Lucky appear in the conventional local attires worn by the deprived class of the society.
The theatre of absurd narrates the story of two days in the lives of two men of Vladimir and Estragon who divert themselves while they eagerly wait in vain for arrival of someone named Godot who is supposed to change their lives.
Their stream of consciousness features various topics and their activities have no limit while waiting for Godot. But, Godot never showed up and as a result nothing changes at last.
Their waiting is often interrupted by the passing of the clowns Pozzo and Lucky as a master and a slave, and a boy who brings them a message that Godot will soon be there. The conversations among the characters have been illustrated in a comical manner yet carrying insightful meanings relating to weariness, frustration and emptiness in human life while waiting for something good to happen.
New Age is the media partner of the festival.
-With New Age input
