The 8th Annual Theatre Festival of the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, Dhaka University will begin today. The four-day festival will feature a total of six plays which will be staged at the auditorium of TSC every evening.
With the slogan “Amader Bhasha Amader Bibidho Roton,” the festival starts from today and will continue until February 14.
The six plays will be performed by the senior students of the department while the students of different batches are working on set and sound design, costumes, make-up and others, informed Sudip Chakroborthy, a teacher of the department, to Dhaka Tribune. He said: “The students are taking preparations for the festival for the last three months.”
Today’s play is Manush, written by eminent dramatist Munaer Chowdhury and directed by Mahbubur Rahman. Vice Chancellor of University of Dhaka Professor Dr A A M S Arefin Siddique will be present as chief guest of the inaugural ceremony. Pro Vice Chancellor (academic) Professor Dr Nasreen Ahmed, Pro Vice Chancellor (administration) Professor Dr Shahid Akhtar Hossain and the treasurer will be present as special guests of the programme.
On February 12, Edward Elby’s The Zoo Story will be staged. The play is translated by Kazi Mustain Billah and directed by Tahsinur Rahman. Eugene O’Neill’s Ill will be staged on the same day, translated by Kabir Chowdhury and directed by Nusrat Jahan.
WB Yeats’ Cathleen ni Houlihan, translated by Kabir Chowdhury and directed by Cathorin Purification will showcase on February 13. Directed by Tarik Ibrahin Shojib, Farce of the Devil’s Bridge written by Henri Gheon and translated by Khondoker Kamal Hossain will also stage that day.
On the last day of the festival, Desire Under the Elms written by Eugene O’Neill and translated by Kabir Chowdhury will be staged by the students.