A six-day festival featuring eighteen plays from Bangladesh and India , begins September 12 at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy.
The festival is being arranged by Ganga-Jamuna Natyautsab Parishad (Bangladesh Committee), in association with Indian theatre troupe Aneek (Kolkata).
Aneek has been arranging this festival in Kolkata for the last seventeen years and in 2012, a special committee was formed in Bangladesh for the event to take place in the country as well. This is the second installment of the “Ganga-Jamuna Natyautsab,” in Bangladesh.
Besides Aneek, Ritwik is another theatre troupe participating in the festival. Leading troupes of Bangladesh like Aranyak, Loko Natya Dal, Prachyanat, Nagarik Natyangan and others will also stage their acclaimed plays in the event.
The festival will showcase 16 plays from Bangladesh and 2 from India which will be staged at three halls of BSA simultaneously at 7pm till September 16.
Eminent playwright Syed Shamsul Haque, will inaugurate the festival as chief guest. Dr Ranajit Kumar Biswas, secretary of Cultural Ministry, will be present as special guest. Theatre personality Mamunur Rashid, Bangladesh Group Theatre Federation Chairman Liaquat Ali Lucky and director general of BSA will be speaking as special guests. Opening speech will be delivered by Akhtaruzzaman, member of the secretariat, Ganga-Jamuna Natyautsab Parishad (Bangladesh Committee). Golam Kuddus, convener of the festival committee will preside over the inaugural ceremony.
The initiative is to make the ties between the two Bengals stronger and is a step forward for the theatre activists of both countries to come together in arranging this theatre festival in Bangladesh titled “Ganga-Jamuna Natyautsab.”
The event will start with the staging of Natyakendro’s “Dui Je Chilo Ek Chakor ,” at the National Theatre Hall, Prangonemor’s “Aurangzeb” at the Experimental Theatre Hall and “Chaka” by the Dhaka University theatre department at the Studio Theatre Hall of BSA.
Theatre troupe Natyakendra 12th production “Dui Je Chhilo Ek Chakor,” a satirical comedy and is based on Venetian playwright Carlo Goldoni’s “Servant of Two Masters.”The play addresses social anomalies through the comic stories of common people, had been adapted, scripted and directed by Tariq Anam Khan.
The tragic story of Deen’s masterpiece “Chaka” is directed by Sudip, which is portrayed on a circular stage, through a combination of narration, dialogue and action.
Prangonemore’s Aurangzeb is a historical play written by Mohit Chattopadhyay and directed by Ananta Heera.
