NATYACHARYA SELIM AL DEEN JANMO UTSAB 2015
Swapnadal stages Tagore�s �Chitrangada� today
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Theatre troupe Swapnadal is staging a special show of Chitrangadaone of the most popular song-based dramas by Rabindranath Tagoreas the part of two-day festival titled Natyacharya Selim Al Deen Janmo Utsab 2015 today at the Studio Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy (BSA), Segun Bagicha in the city. Swapnadal has organised the festival for the 12th time, and on the occasion of the 66th birth anniversary of Nattyacharya Selim Al Deen, the festival started yesterday with the slogan Nikosh Adhare Shoda Jalojjoman Oitihasik Rabindranath Selim Al Deen. Chitrangada, the 11th production of Swapnadal, was produced and staged to pay tribute to Tagore on the occasion of Tagores sesquicentenary.
Rabindranath Tagore wrote Chitrangada with a little part of the eastern epic Mahabharata. But he wrote the play in two different forms. In 1892, when he was only 31 years old, he wrote Chitrangada as a poetic drama (Kabyanatya) and 44 years later in 1936, he wrote it as a dance drama (Nrityanatya) with the same story. Directed by Zahid Repon, the cast of the play includes Sonali Rahman Julie and Farzana Rahman Mita as Chitrangada, Mostafizur Rahman as Arjuna, Sakhwat Shymal as Madan and Shishir Sikdar as Basanta. Farzana Rahman Mita is in choreography while Fazle Rabbi Sukarna is in the direction of set design and lighting.
Where: Studio Theatre Hall, BSA
When: 7pm
