INTERNATIONAL WOMEN�S DAY
Swapnadal to stage �Chitrangada� at Shilpakala today
The troupe to honour its female activists
DL desk
Marking International Womens Day, theatre troupe Swapnadal is going to honour its regular theatre female activists and stage Rabindranath Tagores Chitrangada at the Studio Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy (BSA) in the capital today.
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.
Swapnadal has been celebrating International Women Day since 2012. They have also been felicitating successful women since. The theatre troupe conferred honorary awards on Nuna Afroz and Laki Enam in 2013 while Ferdousi Majumdar was felicitated in 2014 and Shimul Mustafa in 2015.
Where: BSA, Segun Bagicha
When: 7pm.
