Shakespeare lives in Bangladesh
Published: 12:00 AM, 25 April 2016
11 scenes from 7 Shakespearean plays staged at British Council
The last scene of 'Shakespear Shoptok' at British Council lawn garden. The scene is derived from Shakespeare’s play "As You Like It". The play explores filial love, brotherly love and humanitarian love. -AA
As part of William Shakespeare's 400th death anniversary celebration, Theatre and Performance Studies Department of Dhaka University have teamed up with British Council Bangladesh for theatre production "Shakespeare Shoptok".
Started on April 23 and ended yesterday, April 24, the production staged 11 scenes from seven plays by the bard at the lawn garden of British Council. Under the direction of the department's chair and promising theatre director Sudip Chakroborthy, every scene was performed by third year students of Theatre and Performance Studies. The celebration was a as part of global celebration programme 'Shakespeare Lives'.
"Shakespeare Shoptok" combines seven classic tragedies and comedies-"Macbeth", "Hamlet", "Othello", "Romeo and Juliet", "Taming of the Shrew", "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "As You Like It". Eighteen students of the department will be performing in the production. Shakespeare Shoptok or 'Shakespeare's Seven' forms part of the British Council's Shakespeare Lives global programme for 2016, covering 140 countries across the globe, celebrating the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's life and works. This artistic attempt desires to capture the condensed emotion and hyperactive mindscape as well as the vitality of humanity which reflected by immortal playwright's soliloquies monologues and duologues of his universal tragedies and comedies. Theatre director Sudip Chakroborthy said about the production as, "The driving force of this presentation is to create a site of confrontation where audiences can encounter the paradoxical logic of individuality of Elizabethan era blended with the contemporary performativity of a
bunch of young theatre students.
Started on April 23 and ended yesterday, April 24, the production staged 11 scenes from seven plays by the bard at the lawn garden of British Council. Under the direction of the department's chair and promising theatre director Sudip Chakroborthy, every scene was performed by third year students of Theatre and Performance Studies. The celebration was a as part of global celebration programme 'Shakespeare Lives'.
"Shakespeare Shoptok" combines seven classic tragedies and comedies-"Macbeth", "Hamlet", "Othello", "Romeo and Juliet", "Taming of the Shrew", "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "As You Like It". Eighteen students of the department will be performing in the production. Shakespeare Shoptok or 'Shakespeare's Seven' forms part of the British Council's Shakespeare Lives global programme for 2016, covering 140 countries across the globe, celebrating the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's life and works. This artistic attempt desires to capture the condensed emotion and hyperactive mindscape as well as the vitality of humanity which reflected by immortal playwright's soliloquies monologues and duologues of his universal tragedies and comedies. Theatre director Sudip Chakroborthy said about the production as, "The driving force of this presentation is to create a site of confrontation where audiences can encounter the paradoxical logic of individuality of Elizabethan era blended with the contemporary performativity of a
bunch of young theatre students.
