Ramayana play on Nov 19
Cultural Correspondent
The premiere of the play ‘Ebang Ashwamedh Jagnya’ will be staged at the Experimental Theatre Hall of the Bangladesh Shilapakala Academy at 7:00pm at Segun Bagicha in the city.
Noted theatre personality Ferdousi Majumdar will inaugurate the show, produced by Natyadhara.
The play, based on the myth of the Ramayana, has been written and directed by Alok Basu and Debashish Ghosh respectively.
Kiriti Ranjan Biswas will work for set designing, Thandu Raihan for lighting, Shila for costume and Litu Sakhawat for music. Saju Ahmed and Litu Sakhawat will jointly work for choreography.
Different roles are played by Bishwajit Sarker, Ashrafunnahar Dina, Alok Saha Babu, Rafiqul Islam, Mofazzal Hossain, Liakat Ali Jewel, Dipannita Gayen, Sabyasachi Chanchal, Tanim Tanjim, Shakil, Aziz, Kamal and Alok Basu.
The playwright Alok Basu said that the subject of the play, though taken from the Uttarkanda of the Ramayana, would be related to the ongoing incidents of the present days.
‘The audience will find similarities between the characters of the Ramayana and the people of the present days, who are now in power,’ Basu added.
According to the playwright, he was inspired to write the play after seeing a folk performance of Ramayana.
‘I have tried to give a different interpretation of the incidents described in the epic,’ Basu continued, ‘I have tried to present Sita, the female heroine of the epic, as an icon of women rights.’
The theatre group started rehearsal of the play in April and held the technical show in last September.
Photo show begins today
Cultural Correspondent
A two-week photography exhibition on fashion titled ‘Working with the Limitations’ by Khademul Insan will begin today at Goethe-Institut at Dhanmandi in the city.
The exhibition will be a collection of about 20 shots of catwalks, the preparation, the fashion magazines and the styles to present the models, outfits, props, and the others.
Film ‘planned’ on Polanski’s life
BBC Online
A film about the life of director Roman Polanski is to be made, industry paper Hollywood Reporter has said.
The film, titled Polanski, will chronicle his childhood in Poland during the Holocaust and the murder of his wife, Sharon Tate, in 1969. It will also focus on an incident in 1977 when Polanski was charged with unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl.
Film-maker Damian Chapa is behind the project. Polanski’s management team have made no comment on the plans.
Chapa will write, produce and direct the movie, which will begin shooting in January in Belgium, Poland and the US.
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