Saturday, December 19, 2009

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Dream Dream

Kemon laglo natok? Keu dekhe thakle janan.

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Dream Dream



‘Dream-Dream’ is a Bengalised adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’. ‘The rites of May’ refers to the celebration of merriment and flirtations. The merry note of festivity of life is, thus, drawn into drama with the resonance of ‘drim-drim’, the very sound word, itself. It plays the basics of music and dance, apart from humor, magic and spectacle. The final element of this play is dream .The cultural hegemony, in this context, is countered and it is hoped that diversity, variation and freedom will seem to exist. By coalescing the real and the virtual, a larger and layered circumstantial entity of human life is plotted. The dream is that of as many as collection of this humanity. And people are allowed to make sense of their own unique dream and achieve a better understanding of them and find the key to unlocking and interpreting to their dream.
In this play comes Indian mythology, but, unlike Biblical verses, it hardly speaks of the mysteries of the sole wisdom of the god and godly business. Hindu metaphysics, that says things exist only when they are observed, is farther overwritten as every created dream is connected with people’s own existential reality.
In this play comes, too, selected excerpts from the Bengali epic ‘Meghnad Badh Kabya’ and, evidently, purpose the inter-text and the histrionics strike the historicism in reviving, reforming and restoring human memory.
Redirecting the linguistics of a unique and unipolar global village, the play lets the technical devices reprogrammed to speak the people’s language as found finally in addressing the audience to say that if they did not enjoy the play, they should imagine that it was all a dream woven at some surface else.

Sunday, October 11, 2009


Ami ar Gautam

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Saturday, August 29, 2009

josh er reaction

Amar notun natoker rehearsal experience josh blog e post koreche. Porte chaile - http://twitter.com/joshkornbluth

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Citizen Josh

Citizen Josh dekhlam. Monolouge anek dekhechi, eta onyorakam. Acting, text jotota teneche, production design ta noi. Eta aro communicative kora jeto. kintu josh asadharon.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Josh Kornbluth

Aj Josh amader rihersal e esechilo. ami dekhlam abaro, universal language of theatre. Josh & bob dujeneri production design er basic ta bhalo legeche. Kintu amader notun cheleder aro parisrom korte hobe. Janina kabe eder self realisation hobe !

Saturday, August 22, 2009

About Me




As an Editor
Editor of theatre magazine, Sansriti Natya Patrika.
· Keya Chakravarty issue
· Satu Sen issue
· A collection of theatre criticisms (First Part and Second Part)

As a Theatre Director

· HAYABADANA Playwright : Girish Karnad

· LOOK BACK IN ANGER Playwright : John Osborne

· PRATINIDHI Playwright : Debasish Mazumdar

· WINKLE TWINKLE Playwright : Bratya Basu

· PHATARU Based on Nabarun Bhattacharya’s story

· CADAVEROUS Workshop Play

· ANWAY Intimate Play

· YE Based on story by Peter Bischel

· SHYAMASUNDARI By G B SHAW.

· SURJO-PORA CHAI Playwright : Debesh Chattopadhyay

· TETRI KAHANI Story by Mahasweta Devi

· FANDI-GRAM Street Play


As a Playwright


FALTU (2000)

THE GAP (2001)

SURJO PORA CHAI (2003)

TETRI KAHANI (2006)

FANDIGRAM (2008)

BRAIN (2009)

As a Documentary Film Maker

· Documentary film on Satu Sen which is financed by the
National School of Drama ( N S D), Delhi.

· Documentary film ‘ Dreams Unlimited ’on ‘Natyamela 2008’ organised by Paschim Banga Natya Academy.

· Documentary film on ‘Rangakarmi / A Journey’ based on the activities and contribution of the theatre group ‘RANGAKARMI’ .

As a Theatre Workshop Instructer

· Physically and mentally chalenged children (NGO- BIKRAMSHILA & SANCHAR).

· Theatre workers.

· School children (St. Augustines, South Point).

As a Theatre Seminar Speaker

· Seminars organised by N S D, Paschimbanga Natya Academy, Nandipat,Rangakala, Sayak, Rangroop, Abhinayan, Rupantar, Ajitesh Natya Academy, Natya srijoni, Natyasodh, Kathakriti etc.

As a Visiting Lecturer

· Indian Institute Of Science, Bangalore on ‘ Neuroscience & Theatre’ in 2009.

· Wigan & Leigh College India on ‘Acting’ for Design Faculty in 2008.

· Govt. College, Bashirhat on ‘Absurd Drama’ for Arts Faculty in 2007.

Honours

· 50 Emerging Stars of India by The Week (Independence Day special Issue 2003).

· ‘Best Playwright of the Year’ in 2003 by West Bengal Youth Council.

· Satyen Mitra Award by Theatre Wokshop in 2008
for play Surya -Pora Chai.

· ‘Best Play of the Year’ in 2009 by PASCHIMBANGA NATYA ACADEMY
for play Surya -Pora Chai.

· Felicitated in almost all major theatre festival of India including NANDIKAR
& N S D for WINKLE TWINKLE.

· Shyamal Sen Memorial Award by Swapnosandhani in 2009

· Senior fellowship from Ministry of Culture ( Govt. of India) for
Neuroscience & Theatre in 2009.