10-day theatre fest begins Nov 18
Robab Rosan
The ten-day Dhaka University theatre festival will begin at the auditorium of the Teacher-Student Centre of Dhaka University from November 18. Everyday the programme will begin at 6:30pm.
Thirteen plays will be staged during the festival, to be organised by the Department of Theatre and Music of the university.
The department will produce the plays and the students of the department will perform in them.
Vice chancellor of the university Dr SMA Faiz will inaugurate the festival as chief guest while pro vice chancellor Dr AFM Yousuf Haider and treasurer of the university Syed Abul Kalam Azad will be present as special guests.
The inaugural session will be followed by the presentation of ‘Othello’ of William Shakespeare. The play will be directed by Adity Arzu.
On November 19, the play ‘Kayed-E-Hayat’, directed by Farzana Kabir, will be staged while ‘Desire Under the Elms’ of Eugene O Nill, translated by Kabir Chowdhury will be staged on November 20.
The play will be directed by Shakila Sumi.
Eugene Ionesco’s ‘The Chair’, directed by Nahid Jahan will be staged on November 21.
The play ‘Nemesis’ written by Nurul Momen and directed by Babul Akhter will be staged on the same day. The play will begin at 7:30pm.
The organisers will present Samuel Beckett’s ‘Waiting For Godot’, translated by Kabir Chowdhury on November 22. The play will be directed by Rabiul Arafat.
Eugene Ionesco’s ‘The Lesson’, directed by Rehene Haque and Nicolai Kalyada’s ‘Bratto’, directed by Sumi Kawsar will be staged on November 23 while Jean Racine’s ‘Phaedra’, translated by Asit Kumar and directed by Koyele Sharmin will be staged on November 24.
Farnando Arabol’s ‘The Two Executioners’, translated and directed by Aminul Haque
and Harold Pinter’s ‘No Man’s Land’, directed by Manab
Saker will be staged on November 25.
On November 26, the organisers will stage John Osborne’s ‘Look Back In Anger’, translated by Ashok Dasgupta and directed by Shantanu Halder.
The play Kabi, based on the novel by Tarashankar Bandhypadyay, will be staged on the concluding day of the festival, on November 27.
The play, adapted by Saimon Zakaria, will be directed by Shamim Hasan.
DU cultural award ceremony today
Cultural Correspondent
The Teacher-Student Center of the Dhaka University will hold an award-giving ceremony of the Dhaka University Cultural Competition 2007 at 3:00pm today.
Vice chancellor of DU professor SMA Faiz, will be present as chief guest while pro-vc, professor AFM Yousuf Haider and treasurer professor Syed Abul Kalam Azad will attend the ceremony as special guests.
President of the University Alumni Association, Manjur Elahi, will be present as guest of honour. Adviser of the TSC, professor AHM Mostafizur Rahman, will chair the event. The organisers will hand over thirty prizes in different categories including music, dance, recitation, acting, story telling and extempore speech.
‘One, who will grab the highest number of awards, will be given the champion award’, said the organisers adding we will also honour the media partners of the contest.
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