Two troupes from outside Dhaka will stage their productions at the two venues of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy today as part of the ongoing Jatiya Natya Utsab O Dui Banglar Natyamela-2011 organised by Bangladesh Group Theatre Federation with the support from the government.
Rangpur Natya Kendra, from Rangpur, will stage Muktadhara at the National Theatre Hall at 7:00pm while Mancha Mukut Natya Sampradaya, from Chittagong, will stage Prothom Partho at the Experimental Theatre Hall at the same time.
Muktadhara, one of the finest dramatic creations of Rabindranath Tagore, has been interpreted as a symbolic play that indicates Tagore's admiration for Mahatma Gandhi and his rejection of machine in favour of the spirit of life. The central character of the play, Dhananjoy Bairagi, has been seen as a representation of the non-violent spirit of Gandhi.
Muktadhara is placed at an imaginary location, Chitrakoot, ruled by the dictatorial King Ranajit. Chitrakoot is dependent for its financial might on Shiv-tarai, neighbouring area, and consequently Ranajit attempts to control it by building a dam across the waterfall Muktadhara. The dam was built with the help of a gigantic machine built by the royal engineer Bibhuti.
The play charts the hostilities between the citizens of the two areas and the non-violent resistance to Ranajit by the enigmatic singer and sanyasi, Dhananjoy Bairagi. The heir to the throne Abhijit also protests the exploitation of the people of Shiv-tarai by the king and demolishes the dam and let loose the force of the waterfall and in the process he too is swept away. The play is directed by Dr Rashid Harun.
The other show of the day, 'Prothom Partho', is written by Buddhadev Basu and is based on the 'War of Kurukshetra', fought between the Pandavas and Kauravas for the power of Hastinapur, as per the great Indian epic The Mahabharata. The play is directed by Sucharita Das khokon.
Source: New Age
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