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