Aaj Robibar
Based Bangladeshi television sitcom created by Humayun Ahmed that was originally aired on BTV in 1996.
Bhooter Bhabishyat
The play is based on Anik Dutta’s Bengali film “Bhooter Bhabhisyat”. It starts with Ayan Dasgupta, a movie director who visits an old ‘Jamindar Bari’ in Kolkata for shooting his new ad film. He has a dream of making a movie but struggles with plots and funding. He encounters a mysterious man in the house …
Alikbabu
Historical Note: To understand this play, set in mid-19th century Bengal, we need to take note of two historical facts which were prominent in Bengal at that time. Widow remarriage: The Hindu Widow’s Remarriage Act was passed in 1856. Before that time Hindu widows could not legally remarry. Forward thinking people encouraged widow remarriage, though …
Maya O Mukti
‘Maya’ and ‘mukti’ are esoteric concepts with deep roots in Indian philosophy. Over millennia, the twin concepts of ‘maya’ and ‘mukti’ have informed almost all major literary works with roots in the Indic consciousness, from three-thousand-yearold epics to Rabindranath Tagore’s prodigious literary compositions in the last century. If ‘maya’ is that which veils and obscures, …
Kabuliwala
Kabuliwala is a Bengali short story written by Rabindranath Tagore in 1892, during Tagore’s “Sadhana” period (named for one of Tagore’s magazines) from 1891 to 1895. The story is about a fruitseller, a Pathan from Kabul, Afghanistan, who visits Calcutta (present day Kolkata), India each year to sell dry fruits. While living in India, he …
Chaturanga
Actomania’s first production ‘Chaturanga – A Journey through Pandemic’ depicts the epic Pandemic journey through 3 short plays and one Dance-drama. Four new directors from Melbourne with an ensemble cast came together to create magic on stage supported by Actomania’s core team. It’s a mix bag of pandemic tales which shows every aspect of human …