Street theatre festival
Theatre troupes from outside Dhaka perform six plays
Ershad Kamol
The main attraction of the third day of the week-long street theatre festival was the participation of theatre troupes from outside Dhaka. Uchcharan Natya Sampradaya from Chittagong, Shongshoptak Natya Dal from Narayanganj, Rajshahi University Drama Association, Rudra Natya Dal from Bagerhat and Gobindaganj Theatre from Sylhet staged Ar Ekti Juddha, Khepa Paglar Pachal, Posta Akali, Biral Tantra and Shaheed Minar respectively at Central Shaheed Minar premises on February 3. Moreover, the renowned theatre troupe of Dhaka, Prachyanaut staged Mandar.The contemporary social turmoil was depicted in the plays on the third day. The playwrights such as SM Solaiman, Mannan Heera, Abidul Islam, Zahidur Rahman Shaon, Rahul Anand and Abdul Hannan expressed their wrath and anguish through a satire on contemporary society. The third day of the week-long street theatre festival began with the staging of Uchcharan Natya Sampradaya's production Ar Ekti Juddha, written by Abidul Islam and directed by Shamim Ahmed. The play focused on the need of another war to eliminate evil from the society. SM Solaiman's 'rough theatre' Khepa Paglar Pechal is a satire on politics as well as the powers that be. It was presented as a musical. Khepa Paglar Pechal was directed by Sanaullah Haque. Mannan Heera's play Posta Akali, directed by Dilip Kumar Adhikari, is a cry of the oppressed farmers of the country. Biral Tantra by Zahidur Rahman Shaon is a satire on our faulty democratic system, while Abdul Hannan's play Shaheed Minar glorifies the martyrs of the Language Movement in 1952. Rahul Anand's play Mandar is an implicit satire on contemporary society. The week-long street drama festival arranged by Bangladesh Group Theatre Federation will continue till February 7.
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A scene from one of the plays staged at the festival. PHOTO: STAR |
