Direction : Sohag Sen

Synopsis :

আজকের দিনে আমাদের বদ্ধ থাকার কারণ কোনটা? ধর্ম নাকি প্রেম? না। উত্তর টা হচ্ছে ভয়। যেই মুহুর্তটাতে আমরা বাস করছি, সেটা হল আমাদের অস্তিত্বের একটা ক্রমাগত হুমকি যা কোনো অপরিচিতের হাত ধরে আসছে। ভীতি — সেই দুজন সুন্দর মনের যুগলের জীবন বিশ্লেষণ করছে যারা এই ভয়কে চিহ্নিত এবং ব্যবহার করেছেন, এমনকি তার ফল ও ভোগ করেছেন।এই নাটকটি তাকিয়ে একটি সভ্যতার রাজনীতি র দিকে, যেখানে  একটি যুদ্ধবিদ্ধস্ত পৃথিবীকে দৃশ্যমান করা হয়েছে এক নিরূপায় প্রতিবেশের আয়নার মাধ্যমে।

Direction : Kaushik Bose

Synopsis :

                                                      Script developed from Ensemble Theatre Workshop

                                                                    Directed by Kaushik Bose

                                                                               SYNOPSIS

 

Embarking upon a difficult journey back home, a group of migrant labourers face extreme crisis of the basic survival needs of a human- food, shelter and clothes. With the COVID 19 pandemic situation at large, these people are devastated when they find out, not only did they lose their means of livelihood but that, they may not be able to reach home to their families due to the nation-wide lockdown suddenly imposed. In the hopes of availing a transport that may be within their affordability, they decided to walk. This walk, their journey back home crossed all borders and boundaries during which we get acquainted with their physical and emotional turmoil both as individuals and group.

We also come face to face with situations endured by the middle class, as consequences of the pandemic.

Based on true events, this play serves as a reminder of what the common people went through, their hardships, their trials and tribulations. As we adjust to the ‘new normal’ we must not forget that history was not long ago.

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Cast:

Kajjwal Ghosh, Sutapa Ghosh, Sandhita Chatterjee, Soma Mukherjee, Sulagna Chowdhury, Rajib Mukherjee, Tapas Bandyopadhyay, Ranjan Biswas, Sayantan Mondal, Madhuritu Dasgupta, Rishab Pandey, Bishal Chakroborty, Joyeeta Das, Subhashree Polley, Bipassha Sen

 

Concept, design and direction: Kaushik Bose

Direction : Sohag Sen

Synopsis :

DHAWSH

Based on a Turkish play, The Avalanche

Playwright: Tuncer Cucenoglu

Translation: Sohag Sen & Kaushik Bose

Directed by Sohag Sen

 

SYNOPSIS

 

Living under the menace of a monstrous avalanche, a village surrounded by mountains lies frozen for nine months every year in a deadly silence governed by harsh rules to ensure the community’s survival.  Giving birth is only allowed in the remaining three months, as the screams during childbirth or those of the newborns could set out the avalanche.

Kept numb for centuries under the law of fear meant to silence them, the villagers talk under their breath and repress their every feeling. One man alone has the courage to say ‘No’! No to the avalanche, and no to the barbarian traditions.

The Avalanche is a bitter metaphor for the pursuit of liberty, a cry of hope, a piece of fiction where the resemblance with totalitarian regimes is not at all accidental.

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About the director- Having completed 50 years in arts, Sohag Sen remains the most sought after actor's coach in the country. An accomplished theatre personality, she was the first to introduce the concept of "workshop"in films and on stage.

Besides working with filmmakers like Buddhadev Dasgupta, Gautam Ghosh, Rituparno Ghosh, Aparna Sen and many others, she has been directing and writing plays for Ensemble, her theatre foundation.

She is a regular in National School of Drama as a guest faculty and is on the governing body of many prestigious arts institutes. A biography of Sohag Sen shall be published in early December.

 

About the Playwriter- Tuncer Cucenoglu's plays have been staged in 37 countries, he is known as "Turkish Chekov" or "Maestro Cucenoglu" in many countries.

 

Cast: Asit Basu, Sohag Sen, Kajjwal Ghosh, Sutapa Ghosh, Sunayan Khotel, Madhuritu Dasgupta, Soma Mukherjee, Tapas Bandyopadhyay, Kaushik Bose, Shakuntala Dey/Rajib Mukherjee, Sayantan Mandal, Ranjan Biswas, Rishab Pandey

 

An Ensemble Kolkata Production

Direction : Sohag Sen

Synopsis :

CHHOTO CHHOBI

SHORT FILMS

A bunch of young graduates from a private film school get together to make a series of short films on social loneliness as they have found an independent financer, with a condition that he will be allowed to play a role. Rahul the director helplessly agrees much to the annoyance of the group.

They decide to make four short films and make them into a package and send it to different festivals. They are ambitious, specially Rahul. During the filmmaking process they have to continuously face their own dilemmas stemming from creativity, finance and even interpersonal relationships

Rahul has engaged Disha, to write the scripts. He is secretly in love with her. She is not interested though. Tina, the assistant director likes Rahul and is jealous of Disha... Whether they are caught by their own webs of isolation is what the play addresses finally.

Direction : Abanti Chakraborty

Synopsis :

Immediately following her husband’s death, Kanaklata orders her five daughters to observe a yearlong mourning period in which none of them will leave the house or show their happiness. The young women do their best to obey their mother, but when the handsome Ponchuda arrives on the scene, the young women’s desire to honour their mother’s tradition is set against their yearning for freedom. The play KHANDAHAR, an adaptation of originally written as a
critique of the rise of fascism in 1936, from The House of Bernarda Alba by Fedrico Garcia Lorca addresses themes of repression and the fear of change.

 

Khandahar, adapted by Lorca’s famous work The House of Bernarda Alba feels like a journey through the life work. Lorca, through this play, was able to reach down into the depths of human understanding, perhaps going deeper than he’d ever been; and the resulting play reaches out to those who work on it, and eventually make us better humans, better artists.The simplest externals of setting and light design, the truth and complexity and struggle of the characters, with the holistic approach of the adaptation, helped in staging the production.

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Adaptation- Biplab Bandyopadhyay

 

CAST:- SOHAG SEN, RATRI CHATTERJEE, CHAITY CHAUDHURI, MADHUMITA SENGUPTA, SOMA MUKHERJEE, SUTAPA GHOSH, BIDISHA CHAKRAVARTY, MONALISA CHATTERJEE, CHANDRANI CHAKRABORTY, ARKOJA ACHARYYA

Direction : Kaushik Bose

Synopsis :

A Bengali dramatic club, consisting of a bunch of progressive enthusiasts of different ages, trying out from the epic ‘MAHABHARAT’, to enact as their next play but are still undecided about the particular part of the epic which they want to portray. After much discussion they agree to act out the ‘UDHYOG PARBO’ or the ‘INITIATION EPISODE’ of the epic which is actually the part which shows us the various preparations in the kingdom by the kings and the commoners alike  that went into staging the colossal war of  Kurukshetra.

As goes the common saying that every fabric of the Indian society has its origin in MAHABHARAT. So does the violence which wreaks havoc even in our modern society. The play ‘UDHYOG PARBO’ uncurtains the effect of war in the lives of those who take part in it in various ways by rehearsing moments of pain, pressure, planning and social paraphernalia between people at the moment of ‘lull before the storm’.

Here we see merchants, soldiers, accountants and even housewives thinking aloud how to save their lives, live in peace, make profit and both ends meet before, during and after the war. Their words make us laugh, ironically the laughter reflects the immaturity of violence.

Hence ‘UDHYOG PARBO’ is a cry against war. A call for humanity and also a satire which ends with a signature line about ‘we the warriors’ who can replace the animals of warfare being thoughtless enough to kill for nothing. 

Direction : Sohag Sen

Synopsis :

Udbhat Puran has been inspired by “The Cop and the Anthem”, a short story written by O.Henry. The play revolves round an ex-factory worker, who is now penniless and homeless, a tramp. Poverty has driven his wife to the arms of another, the tramp still loves her.

It is winter, he is cold and hungry. After watching a policeman arresting a group for gambling and drinking in a park, he decides to commit a crime so that he can be arrested. Jail, he thought, will give him food and shelter. He commits a series of crimes unsuccessfully. Through his travails he befriends a jobless middle- class man, Biscuitdada, and a prostitute. The prostitute feeds him from time to time as he reminds her of her slain brother.

Biscuitdada gets him a job with an illegal syndicate, realizing honesty doesn’t pay. The tramp is ecstatic, he drinks and falls asleep on the park bench. His wife who has been dumped by her lover is attacked by a group of men in the park. Her cries wakes the tramp. He yells, the men flee. Husband and wife recognize each other. As he tries to pick her up, ironically a policeman mistaking him for a rapist, drags him to jail.

Direction : Sohag Sen

Synopsis :

X & Y

To be or not to be…..

The play starts in a maternity hospital where a husband comes to admit his pregnant wife. There they meet an unethical, insane doctor, a shady nurse, a suspicious ayah, a miscreant political goon and a nagging office assistant. The story takes a u- turn when the twins (foetus)refuse to come out from their mother’s womb! They seem to be scared of facing a corrupt society, a superstitious father, and a workaholic mother.

To know whether they come out from their mother’s womb or not you have to watch the play till the end…..

The play is a hilarious comedy and speaks of the present scenario of the so called civil society in a rather satirical way.

Direction : Sohag Sen

Synopsis :

Rape is a heinous crime purported on women. It is also an exhibition of power, often orchestrated by the political machinery. In recent years it has turned into a plague.

“Haaye Haaya” (Shame) is a hard hitting play on this despicable condition. It tries to analyze the psychology behind this impulse and also the socio-political design which encourages it.

The play is a continuous inter-cut between Sabhaparba from the Mahabharata, a short story by Mahasweta Devi title “Draupadi”, and the story of Panchali, a young woman of today.

In Mahabharata Draupadi, despite being a queen, suffered unthinkable indignity in the hands of men who were her relatives. She had become a pawn in a power politics.

Dopdi Mejhen is a tribal woman who out of sheer desperation was fighting for survival. Consequently she was considered a rebel and had to be thwarted. She was gang raped by the police force.

Panchali faces the societal stigma after being raped in her own city.

“Haaye Haaya” is a critique of this shameful act against nature.

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CAST :- Kaushik Bose, Turna Das, Sampurna Chakraborty, etc

Direction : Sohag Sen

Synopsis :

Lal Baksho, (The Red Box) deals with terror and its manifestations. The play comprises five independent episodes. The common features in all the episodes are a red box. The play deals with everyday life of:

(a) Middle aged lovers in a park, where a single woman is entangled with a married man, and how the presence of a red box jeopardizes their 15 year old relationship.

(b) Group of Artisans, their everyday life, problems, high hopes and then how an unattended red box changes the scenario drastically and affects the unity of the fraternity.

(c) Co-passengers in a train compartment, where the religious prejudices of passengers are exposed shamelessly when the unidentified red box comes into the picture.

(d) A family in an apartment, where a young would–be groom seems to be in deep crisis and how he bursts out in anger against the parental pressures when the red box appears as a gift of fear.

(e) The crew and actors of a mega-serial set, where a busy working day of the television industry faces an unexpected shock from an apparently harmless red box.   

 

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 DURATION OF THE PLAY IS 2 HOURS WITH 10 MINUTES INTERVAL.

Direction : Sohag Sen

Synopsis :

The play BISHAKTO (Poisonous) revolves around a locality of Kolkata in the summer of 1962. Maharaj, a little boy and assistant to Shiwnandan, the Calcutta Corporation sweeper, goes down a manhole to clean it.  Maharaj is overwhelmed by the noxious gas attack and gets stuck inside the manhole. The locality watches and discusses the matter, all sympathies with him, but no one comes up with a constructive solution to his plight. Help comes too late and the boy dies.  

Bishakto, inspired by the original play Neelkantha, by well known playwright late Sri Utpal Dutt brings up several questions about the workings of the society, primarily about the concern and duty towards one another. It reflects the nonchalant/indifferent nature of the urban mass. 

The story starts with a quiet ‘Para Adda’/chess game in a small tea shop in the locality  and a cricket match  which portray the laid back life of the city in the early evening. This suddenly takes a U-turn and awakens when the little boy shouts in his suffering. He can’t be seen, but his voice expresses his pain. The public focus on various topics, like price hike, football matches,  politics or marriage, but no one seems to be too concerned about rescuing the boy. The urban mass almost becomes a mob when the police or the doctor comes, but no major effort is seen. They are united when they catch a pick-pocket amongst the crowd and they feel responsible about the society for the first time only to teach the poor thief a lesson. The media comes to cover the story, the onlookers pose for the camera.  Amongst all this, at the end, the lifeless body of Mahadev is rescued by the fire brigade in absolute silence. 

Though the play was written in 1962, it is still relevant in today’s context.

 

Direction : Sohag Sen

Synopsis :

The clash of cultures that characterized what is now described as the Bengal Renaissance and its aftermath was a theme that ran through several works of
fiction, long and short, by Rabindranath Tagore. Robibar (Sunday) is a dramatic dialogue between Bibha and Abhik. Bibha, to her faith and her set of values, is in love with Abhik, an artist who makes a cult of his bohemianism, his atheism, and his irresponsibility, and makes an aesthetic creed out of them. Bibha’s personal loyalty to Abhik is invulnerable, and survives the worst provocations, while Abhik steals from Bibha and leaves for Britain as a stoker in a ship, to ‘discover’ himself. The narrative remains open-handed, leaving the readers enmeshed in a situation of unresolved choices.
The production is crafted in a story-telling format. Two actors will narrate and two actors will read the two characters of Bibha and Abhik.

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CAST:
Narrators : Jayatsen Bhattacharya and Sohini SenGupta
Abhik : Dhritiman Chaterji
Bibha : Anasua Majumder

 

Original Playwright- Rabindranath Tagore

Direction : Sohag Sen

Synopsis :

SONATA  is an Indian –English play recovering round one Sunday evening in the lives of three women  college friends, now in their middle age ---- a banker, a college professor and  a journalist,  all well- established in their  profession and all single by choice.

The play explores their position in a metropolitan society. It articulates their relationships, ideals, aims, psychology and sexuality. In an apartment peaceful environment the play sometimes explodes into silences full of betrayal and unshed tears. Finally, it transcends the most important factor – the love and bonding the three share despite all their differences.

The play is very well-knit and is full of wit and humour. It is punctuated by Rabindrasangeets and Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata”. It is both entertaining and discerning about life.

Direction : Sangeeta Chakravarti

Synopsis :

Jatri is a skillfully crafted uninterrupted piece about the adventure of life told through a cyclist journey, which, as it progresses, unravels man’s existential question and his search for the illusive truth.

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Playwright- Vijay Tendulkar

 

Actors :- Kaushik Bose, Sudeshna Nandi, Robin Banerjee, Gautam Sarkar, Kajjwal Ghosh, Abhrajeet Chakraborty, Sutapa Ghosh, Suman Kundu, Indraneel Sengupta, Suman Bhaduri, Sumalya Chatterjee, Santanu Majumder, Saibal Dutta, Anindya Sen, Amit Dey

Direction : Kaushik Bose

Synopsis :

‘Amake Dekhum’ is a tale of an ordinary man and his struggle for existence. Arindam Basu is a bank-clerk. He has lots of problems which nobody pays heed to. A banana peel motivates him to raise some important questions to the community.

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Original Playwright- Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay

Actors: - Kaushik Bose and Others

Direction : Dipak Ghosh

Synopsis :

The terrorists of the world speak in the same language ‘Nonsense’. A play with the title ‘Nonsense’ on religious fanaticism was being enacted when the terrorists attack the actors. They conspire to kill the playwright, Rajjak, the protagonist, and others. They become fugitives. The playwright tries to save Rajjak, an old veteran who is respected and admired by all. He secretly contacts a leader of the opposite party. The terrorists get to know and attack, playwright dies. The wife of Rajjak pleads to the leader of the terrorists to allow Rajjak to live. The leader is willing to grant life to Rajjak if he joins their group. Rajjak refuses. His life comes to an end but play does not. Terrorism goes on.

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Adaption- Ensemble Theatre Wrokshop

Direction : Kaushik Bose

Synopsis :

Bhoot Bhabishyat is the story of middle - class Bengali families. Story of their desires and attainments, wish fulfillments and frustrations, dreams coming true and getting shattered; Bhoot Bhabishwat is a tale of relationships. The changing values of life and looking back from present to past and to future.

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Actors :- Robin Banerjee, Kajjwal Ghosh, Dipan Sarkar, Madhumita Ghosh, Suchita Roy Chowdhry, Santanu Majumder, Suddhasattwa Bhattachrya, Suman Kundu, Sutapa Ghosh, Anindya Sen.

Script created through- Ensemble Theatre Workshop

Direction : Sohag Sen

Synopsis :

SHIRIR NEECHE which means ‘Below the stairs” is an off-beat kind of story. The basic theme revolves around a class of people who are relegated to live below the stairs. They are the multitude of domestic helps – drivers, sweepers, darwans, gardeners, cooks, full time and part time maids, house servants etc. These people are the mainstay of the class living above the stairs, without them life would be quite non- functional. But the “upper class” generally tends to look down on the so called “lower class”. They are treated as hordes who are necessary but invisible props and not real people.

The story depicts the trials, tribulations, loves, aspirations of these people and their position in society. It reveals the layers of undercurrent between them and the class living above the stairs. It is a critique of this situation and not judgmental. Finally it deals with tolerance, starting from a personal level and transcending to an extra-real carnivalesque social level. The story is brutally real but also has its slice of fun, frolic, wit, song dance and music.

Direction : Sohag Sen

Synopsis :

The world is becoming smaller and smaller! Riding on the wings of the information technology, man is flying all around the world, but is
drifting away from one another. In this play, few of them place petitions to God through their mobile phones.

 

 

The modern society is enslaved by technology, the focal point is speed. Just as the distance is minimized by technology, it is a light comedy. One can grasp from this play that the mobile phone is held responsible for such state of affairs.

Bhuban or the world, is a small village were the residents are facing a problem of being detached from each other as if they exist in distant islands. The cause is the empowerment of technology in their lives which is putting them in a dismal state. In any social gathering, theatre performance or
Musical rendering, the concentration is broken by that tiny instrument, the one and only mobile phone. Though we are aware of it, we just cannot get out of the habit. We find faults in others but do not try to overcome ours. The four characters in this play, in their extreme desire of wish-fulfillment, make a
contact with God and try to plead for their aspirations. Unluckily, due to lines being busy, undesirably they get connected to the wrong people. A hilarious
situation is arises from these wrong connections. The play is in Intimate Theatre form in which the artists communicate with the audience directly.

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Actors:- Dipak Ghosh, Kaushik Bose, Abhrajit Chakraborty, Turna Das, Mitali Das, Sulagna Singha Roy, Anindya Sen and chorus

 

Script evolved through- Ensemble Theatre Workshop

Direction : Sohag Sen

Synopsis :

The play ‘Proti Chhoy Second’ is the outcome of a combined effort by the participants of workshop organized in 2003. In the year 2003 the title of the play was chosen as the statistics said that every six seconds somewhere in the world somebody is afflicted by AIDS. Ensemble has been organizing theatre workshop for last four years. The syllabus is varied. The present terrifying situation has motivated us to create this play on AIDS. AIDS is such a formidable disease that we shy away from giving shelter and medical treatment to the patients of AIDS even if the person is a close relative or associate.

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Actors : Madhuchhanda Ghosh, Dipak Ghosh, Sangeeta Chakravarti , Kaushik Bose, Robin Banerjee, Kajjwal Ghosh, Sandhita Chatterjee, Avrajeet Chakraborty, Suman Kundu, Sutapa Ghosal, Turna Das, Sulagna Singha Roy, Debtirtha Chakraborty, Arup Chakraborty/Prasenjit Ghosh, Sayani Bhattacharya.

Direction : Sohag Sen

Synopsis :

The play Bangshagata is a Black Comedy. Taking Bribe, falsehood, illicit relationship and such corrupt behavior had gone down three generations of the family. The grandfather, who is deceased, complications in the lives of the father and mother and their son, all these unhappy state of affairs is the story of the play. It emphasizes the perception as well as depravity of life.

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Playwright- Satish Alekar

Direction : Sohag Sen

Synopsis :

‘Aparadh’ is a story of a sex – workers quarter in the Red Light  Area. Babu , the son of ‘Masi’, the owner, of that brothel has contacted AIDS. He is in love with Champa, a sex – worker who is an inmate of that quarter. On the other hand Champa is in love with Bullet, a drug peddler. Champa and Bullet decide to run away from this sullied atmosphere and start a new life. Somehow, Babu gets to know their plan. Just to stop Champa from running away from him, he rapes her. Bullet comes in the middle of the night to take Champa away but he gets to known about the disaster in Champa’s life. Babu has AIDS! He rejects her in mortal fear of contacting the disease from her. Champa, the young beautiful girl is under a shadow of misfortune. Her place is now beside the old beggar woman in the street beside the Red Light Area. Life goes on.

Direction : Sohag Sen

Synopsis :

An average ordinary man suddenly gets a lot of money via his lottery ticket. The friends, relatives and neighbours get to know about the money. They flock around him. Unintentionally, all of a sudden, the average man becomes someone special to everyone. The helplessness of this common man is the story of Asahay.

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ACTORS- Tapas Thakur, Dipak Ghosh, Sangeeta Chakravarti, Kaushik Bose, Kajjwal Ghosh, Goutam Sarkar, Deb Chaudhury, Dheeman Roy, Bina Adhikari, Jishu Mitra, Rakhi Ghosh, Mriganko Sanyal , Sayani Bhattacharjee, Sandip Bhatterjee, Sunetra Bhatterjee, Sandip Bose.

Direction : Sohag Sen

Synopsis :

The play deals with the problems of the amateur theatre groups.The groups are burdened with financial, social and creative problems. There are no standard solutions specified by the play. It only has tried to analyze the situation.

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Script: Ensemble Theatre Workshop
Premiere: 22.10.2000
Venue: Academy

CREDIT

Music & Sound: Sandip Dey
Light: Bablu Sarkar
Costume: Sangeeta Chakravarti
Make up: Manik Banik
Director: Sohag Sen 

Cast :- Tapas Thakur ,Dipak Ghosh, Sangeeta Chakravarti, Swapan Barua, Kaushik Bose, Robin Banerjee, Sudeshna Nandi, Gautam Sarkar, Jayatsen Bhattacharya, Nilanjana Bera, Prasenjeet Ghosh, Bhaskar Ghatak, Rakhi Ghosh,  Sandip Bose, Sandip Dey, Abhijit Das, and Sohag Sen.

Direction : Sohag Sen

Synopsis :

‘Seven Deadly Sins of Petty Bourgeois’ was written by Bertolt Brecht in 1933, when he was in Paris, self– exiled from Fascist Germany.

 

When the general impression about United States of America was that, the only state where one can express one’s opinions freely, Brecht experienced the reality of a Fascist America which was extremely materialistic. He wrote this musical ballet exposing the capitalist America which was egotistic and
avaricious.

The play goes thus – Anna, a girl from a village in Louisiana beside that river Mississippi, is born in a poor family. To bring some money into the family she travels to seven different cities in the Southern part of America. She has to transgress seven sins of man such as Sloth, Pride, Ager, Gluttony, Lust, Avarice and Envy (The seven sin according to the Bible). Here the alter ego of Anna appears the second personality, completely different from the first. Anna-1 is materialistic, intelligent, efficient and with strong personality. Anna-2 on the other hand is frivolous, sensitive, passionate and naïve. This musical ballet is a satire on the capitalist, avaricious decadence of American society. Feigning virtuousness is the eighth sin that strings together all the other seven sins in one string. Whenever Anna’s family prays to God for her welfare, the falseness in that prayer is exposed. The human society is pathetically enslaved by these social norms.

The conception of ‘sin` is a means for satirizing bourgeois society, so that , for instance, Anna’s ‘anger` is anger directed at exploitative bosses; her ‘lust` at a romantic lover at the expense of a wealthy lover and so on.

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Playwright- Bertolt Brecht

Actors: - Archana Sinha (Clara / Junior Artist), Kaushik Bose (Tom / Choreographar/ Boss’s Asst /Public), Jayashree Dasgupta (Maa /Mrs. Parker ), Tapas Thakur (Baba / Boss /Edward Foster), Nilanjana Bera (Rubi / Junior Artist / Miss . Brown ), Piu Majumder (Public / Junior Artist), Pratip Dutta (Mr.Parkar / Director), Pravat Roy ( Set Painter / Police ), Prasenjit Ghosh (Brother / John Asst. Dir.) Manik Banik (Set boy / Boss’s Asst.), Rajatava Dutta (Redford / Fernando ), Sudipa Basu (Ana – 2), Sudeshna Roy (Ana - 1), Swapan Barua (Set boy / Police / Public).

Paap(Musical) has received the best direction award.

Direction : Sohag Sen

Synopsis :

After 10 years of Uttaradhikar, the Bandhopadhyay family in Chandipur village has evolved through different ups and downs of life. The village is not the same anymore as it is used to be. Its purity is affected by sound and environmental pollution. The changed society does not allow the people to remain simple. The eldest grandson of the family Somu, having experienced the downfall of his family and his society becomes very adamant, extrovert and whimsical to a certain extent. His apparent dominates his intense sympathetic mind. Somu runs his business in an illegal way, but at the same time he brings back a stable financial condition in the family. The play Uttarpurush tells us about the clashes between urban, rural and foreign values when the Mumbai based Ramen (Somu’s uncle) and his wife Shyamali with their NRI son Jitu comes to stay with the Bnadhopadhyay family for the weddings of
Somu and his sister Chanda.The various life values get an universal appeal through the course of the play. Adament Somu gets very influenced and motivated by his calm composed wife Krishna. The personality of Krishna makes Somu intense and thoughtful.

 

 

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Playwright- Mahesh Elkunchwar

 Actors : Tapash Thakur, Dipak Ghosh, Sangeeta Chakravarti, Pratip Dutta, Madhuchhanda Ghosh, Jayati Ganguly, Archana Singha, Jayati Ganguly, Biswajit Deb Roy, Mrinal Kanti Das, Swapna Mitra and Sohag Sen.

Uttarpurush has received the best production award.

Direction : Sohag Sen

Synopsis :

Gomukh, the starting place of river Ganga is used as a symbol in this play. A small locality with four houses, their inmates and the continuous tussle of everyday life is the subject of the play. Some leave the locality; others come, individual joys and sorrows, dreams fulfilled and shattered, these are the themes that from the play enacted in four different lighted zones on the stage.

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Playwright- Anjan Dutta

Actors :- Ashok Ghosh, Asish Ganguly, Utpal Ghosh, Jayati Ganguly, Tapas Thakur,
Debashis Sinha, Nibedita Bhattacharya, Babulal Kundu, Baisakhi Ghosh, Motilal Sen,
Madhuchhanda Ghosh, Robin Das, Mrinal Kanti , Sangeeta Chakravarti, Swapan Barua

 

Direction : Sohag Sen

Synopsis :

The play is a satire which speaks against the ruthless and meaningless rituals that takes place after the death of a common man. The play describes how even after a death the so called relatives and neighbours socially, ritually and psychologically disrespect the dead person. In the camouflage of sorrow and purity, death becomes a mere fuss.

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Playwright- Satish Alekar

Direction : Sohag Sen

Synopsis :

This play encompasses three female monologues in -

Bengali (Ma by Mahasweta Devi), Hindi ( Dhup Ka Ek Tukda by Nirmal Verma) and English (Waking Up by Franka Rame)

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Cast:-

Ma- Mamata Chatterjee

Dhup Ka Ek Tukda- Doly Basu & Bhaskar Roy

Waking Up- Sangeeta Chakravarti.

Direction : Sohag Sen

Synopsis :

In Party, Mahesh Elkunchwar takes a look at the members of the creative set in an Indian metropolis. This section of the society is well settled in life, without any financial problem. So the topics of conversations in parties are politics, literature or man woman relationships i.e. gossips. The focus is on success and social recognition. Someone may have had a genuine emotion at some point but the social decadence has brought it down to ashes. These parties are paradigms of the phony society of the upper class with their pretensions, rivalries, aspirations, and frustrations.

There are three individuals who are at the edge of this society. They do not follow the flock, are uncompromising and self – willed and as such they accentuate the emptiness of that society and heartlessness of the games that the creative set plays.

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Playwright- Mahesh Elkucnhwar

 

Actors- Alakananda Dutta, Dolly Basu, Tapas Thakur, Dipak Ghosh, Buddhadeb Sammader, Rajat Sengupta, Sangeeta Chakravarti, Santana Bhattacharya, Subrata Srimani, Sourav Saha, and Sohag Sen.

Direction : Sohag Sen

Synopsis :

The play Uttaradhikar tells us the story of the gradual declination of the orthodox joint families through the course of time. The father or the head of the family dies and the Mumbai- based son arrives with his modern wife. They seem like outsiders, they don’t relate to the naivety and freshness of the everyday village life. Selfish attitude and misunderstandings takes place between the family members. But a sudden family disaster brings them together once again to each other and they realize that blood is thicker than anything else in this world.

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Playwright- Mahesh Elkunchwar

Direction : Sohag Sen

Synopsis :

Assemblage of three short plays on loneliness. Solo enactment by three actors. The characters question the society and / or political affairs of the state for being responsible for their aloneness.

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Playwright- Nirmal Verma

 

Cast:- Alokananda Dutta, Tapas Thakur, Sohag Sen

Direction : Sohag Sen

Synopsis :

This play is from a collection of plays by Bertolt Brecht – ‘Fears & Misery’s of the Third Reich` (German : Furcht und Elend des Dritten Reiches) It shows the Fascist Germany had overcast a shadow over the lives of ordinary people in the society. Breeding of distrust grew among the family members. Husband and wives did not trust each other; parents were suspicious of their children.

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Playwright- Bertolt Brecht

Cast- Sohag Sen, Ujjwal Gupta