কসবা অনুপ্রাস ২২ বছরে পড়ল। এ বছর তাদের উদ্যোগ Comedynamite সন্ধ্যা, অর্থাৎ হাসির বিস্ফোরণ। বর্তমান বাংলা থিয়েটার সূক্ষ্ম হাস্যরসের বড়ো অভাব। সেই কথা মাথায় রেখেই কসবা অনুপ্রাস দর্শকদের জন্য হাজির হয়েছে হাসির ডালি সাজিয়ে- ‘কমেডিনামাইট’। এক সন্ধ্যায় পর পর তিন স্বল্পদৈর্ঘ্যের কমেডি নাটক- ‘নো অপশন’, ‘মোগলাই’ এবং ‘চিনি ছাড়া লিকার’।
নো অপশন ষাটোর্ধ্ব অক্রূর নন্দী এখনও অকৃতদার। উচ্চবিত্ত ও সুপুরুষ হওয়া সত্ত্বেও তাঁর বিবাহ হয়নি। বহু বার বহু ভাবে তিনি বিয়ের চেষ্টা করেছেন এবং বার বার ব্যর্থ হয়েছেন। যৌবন থেকে মধ্যবয়স পেরিয়ে তিনি প্রৌঢ়ত্বে অবতীর্ণ। অবশেষে তিনি প্রেমে পড়েছেন সদ্য স্বামীহারা মহিলার। কিন্তু সেখানেও বিপত্তি। মৃণালিনী দেবীকে বিয়ে করতে হলে সবার আগে তাঁর ছেলেকে রাজি করাতে হবে। চিন্তায় অক্রূরবাবু।
মোগলাই দুই বৃদ্ধ দুই বন্ধু। প্রত্যহ তারা পার্কে বসে আড্ডা মারে। কিন্তু এদিন একজনের মেজাজ রয়েছে বিগড়ে। কারণ, মোগলাই। মোগলাই সে দু’চক্ষে সহ্য করতে পারে না। আর সেই অপছন্দের খাবারই অন্য বন্ধুটি খেয়ে এসেছে। ব্যাস! আর যায় কোথায়। শুরু দুই বন্ধুর ঠোকাঠুকি। অনাদি কেবিনের নস্টালজিক মোগলাইয়ের প্রসঙ্গ ধরেই উঠে আসে হারিয়ে যাওয়া প্রেমের স্মৃতি।
চিনি ছাড়া লিকার অতুল ও প্রীতির প্রেম সংশয়ের মুখে। তাদের সম্পর্ক জানাজানি হতেই অতুলের বাবা অনিমেষ খায় ঘুমের ওষুধ এবং প্রীতির মা মণি খেয়ে নেয় কেরোসিন। ভবিষ্যৎ ঠিক করতে দেখা করে অতুল ও প্রীতি। দৈবদুর্বিপাকে সেখানে হাজির হয় অনিমেষ ও মণিও। প্রকাশ্যে আসে এক অকল্পনীয় তথ্য। ধসে যায় অতুল-প্রীতির প্রেমের স্বপ্ন।
তিরিশতম প্রতিষ্ঠাবর্ষে সারাদিন থিয়েটারের সঙ্গে গেরস্থালি
ভালোবাসার চারটে রঙ চতুর রঙ্গ । দু’জোড়া দম্পতি জড়িয়ে পরে একে অপরের সঙ্গে অন্য এক ভালোবাসার সম্পর্কে। আর সে কারণেই ওরা একা, অসহায়; সমাজ নির্দ্ধারিত রীতির বিবেচনায় বহিরাগত। ওদের জগতের ‘সত্যি’টাকে মিথ্যে দিয়ে ঢাকতে গিয়ে একসময় ক্লান্ত ও প্রায় নিঃস্ব হয়ে পড়ে। ক্রমশ ওদের ভালোবাসার রঙ বদলে যেতে থাকে নিজেদেরই বুনে চলা মিথ্যে আর প্রতারণার জালে; স্বাভাবিক বিশ্বাস বদলে যেতে থাকে অস্বাভাবিক আত্ম প্রবঞ্চনায়। মরচে ধরতে শুরু করে সম্পর্কে, বানানো কথাগুলো ফুরিয়ে যায় একদিন। একসময় বানিয়ে তোলা ‘সত্যি’ জীবনটাকে নির্বাসনে পাঠিয়ে ওরা অপরাধীর মতো ধরা দেয় একে অন্যের কাছে ।
সত্যি শুধু সেটাই যা আমাদের বিশ্বাসে থাকে – Truth dwells in faith, faith affirms truth
তিরিশতম প্রতিষ্ঠাবর্ষে সারাদিন থিয়েটারের সঙ্গে গেরস্থালি
After his car breaks down, Gerardo Escober, a lawyer, who has just been chosen to head the Commission that will investigate the crimes of the earlier regime in Chile, is rescued by a doctor, Roberto Miranda. However, Paulina, Gerardo’s wife recognizes in the sound of the doctor’s voice another man — the one who raped and tortured her as she lay blindfolded in an army detention centre some years before. A shocking tale of retribution and revenge, “Meyeti” is a psychological thriller about Paulina’s diligent search for justice at any cost. She has been unable to break free of the painful memories of her past. Through a chance encounter she may have stumbled upon the very man who had tormented her.
Based on the novel Asura:The tale of unvanquished by Anand Neelakantan published by Leadstart, our play implores into the perspective of the Asuras and their leader Ravana in the tale of Ramayan.
The play seeks the answer to a bigger question transcending the ideas of Good and evil
The drama is based on a life of a magician who wanted to become famous. He had a dream that one day everybody will praise him for his unusual talent of magic.
Magician was so much adamant that he started an experiment of giving life in dead bodies. He applied this trick over his son also. Then what happen? It will be revealed not by any human beings, but the insects, pests like spider, cockroach, rat, lizard, ants. Do they have any connection with the magician?
Story starts in the time of Mahalaya. The mysterious past of the magician will be revealed inside a haunted house where he used to get sheltered every night to search a particular thing.
On the other hand every insect and pest family are anxious that the magician will sell this house and they will be homeless. So they unified against this man. Who are this insects? We can discover this as the play moves on.
Written in the background of the mid 90s, this extremely intense and revealing play by Late Amit Maitra, travels through the core concepts of human existence. It speaks of a decoding journey whereby the meaning of life changes altogether at different junctures.
The story revolves around the myth of an accidental act by a newborn performing a playful pull of his mother’s ‘nolok’, thereby leading to her nasal tear and striking story for the future gossip. Now this act of the past, which has always been casually discussed again and again in nostalgic environments takes an abrupt turn when certain correlative analysis is done.
What apparently was just a childish act, turns out to be a deliberately created myth and shatters the entire societal existence of the protagonist. He is exposed to a different truth about himself and his entire take on the world changes.
On one hand the play displays the unveiling of the myth and its hollow layers and the exposure of a different truth in it. On the other hand it speaks of core values of life and how humanity overpowers non-living matters in this universe.
Directed and acted by Sohan Bandopadhyay, this play of 100 minutes by Nat-Ranga ensures a high tide of emotions for the audience along with a detective journey towards truth.
Binodini opera is a music-based drama written and directed by Abanti Chakraborty, with Shibashis Bandopadhyay as Co-Writer and Rudroroop Mukhopadhyay playing the role of a dramaturg.
This ensemble cast based theatre revolves around the life and chronicles of Nati Binodini Dasi, the prima donna of Bengali Theatre of 18th Century. Binodini Dasi, coming from the so-called prohibited quarters of a harlot’s bed, had risen to be the star of theatre by sheer practice, perseverance, and penance. Guided by her Guru Girish Ghosh, she had left no stones unturned to have a theatre for the p ublic. Debauched and denuded by her male counterparts, she silently left the stage at the zenith of her career.
The theatre embodies an ensemble cast with the historical presence of Girish Ghosh,Amritalal Basu,Gurmuk Roy,Kumar Bahadur,Rangababu and a plethora of the then who’s who of Bengali theatre. The theatre attempts to question the patriarchal hierarchy of contemporary times through a narrative of songs and expository performances. Interestingly,enough, the presence of patriarchy has not much mired with time.
Macbeth: What’s Done is Done, an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, directed by Rajat Kapoor, featuring Ranvir Shorey, Vinay Pathak & others.
Macbeth: What’s Done is Done is about greed, ambition and guilt.
Julio (Vinay Pathak) & Pedro draw you into the world of Macbeth, or Macky B (Ranvir Shorey) & Lady Macbeth, an adaptation of Macbeth and his lady. Macky B is a good, honest man, a brave soldier and a loyal friend.
Macky B & his friend Banquo set out on an adventure in the forest, where they meet three witches who give them three impending prophecies, for whom “fair is foul, and foul is fair.” After that, the perception of Macky B is “Stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires.” Vinay Pathak and Aadar Malik make it a scary, clownish affair. “By the prickling of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.”
The audience becomes the fellow citizen of the then-filthy Scotland, where you will live with Macky B and his lady. Beware, as they “look like the innocent flower, but are the serpent under it.”
King Lear: Nothing Like Lear, an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s King Lear, directed by Rajat Kapoor, featuring Vinay Pathak.
King Lear is widely regarded as Shakespeare’s crowning artistic achievement. Vinay Pathak’s solo performance as Lear exceeds his acting prowess & is breathtaking at times.
“I am a king, my masters. Know you that?” – Lear, the aging king of Britain, decides to step down from the throne and divide his kingdom evenly among his three daughters. First, however, he puts his daughters through a test, asking each to tell him how much she loves him.
Goneril and Regan, Lear’s older daughters, give their father flattering answers. But Cordelia, Lear’s youngest and favorite daughter, remains silent, saying that she has no words to describe how much she loves her father. Lear flies into a rage and disowns Cordelia.
The king of France, who has courted Cordelia, says that he still wants to marry her even without her land, and she accompanies him to France without her father’s blessing.
Lear quickly learns that he made a bad decision. Goneril and Regan swiftly begin to undermine the little authority that Lear still holds. Unable to believe that his beloved daughters are betraying him, Lear slowly goes insane.
He flees his daughters’ houses to wander on a heath during a great thunderstorm, accompanied by his Fool and by Kent, a loyal nobleman in disguise “How? Nothing will come out of nothing.”
When Cordelia tells Lear that she can say ‘nothing’ about her love for her father, this line is Lear’s response; the line reverberates throughout the play. Lear essentially repeats when he tells the Fool that “nothing can be made out of nothing.”
These repetitions reflect King Lear’s obsession with absences and loss, which prepares the audience for a play that begins with an impulsive, senseless act and ends with no meaning, no hope, no redemption for its characters.
“Who is it that can tell me who I am?” ~ Audiences are pulled into the story as they become the then citizens of ancient Britain and witness the tragic hero, his three flaws, his arrogance, his ignorance and his misjudgments. G.B. Shaw once wrote, “No man will ever write a better tragedy than Lear.”
