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Bangla Drama 3-27 November 2016 Tower Hamlets Council presents: A Season of Bangla Drama 3-27 November 2016 A dazzling festival of theatre with powerful performances, walks, talks and exhibitions. For more information call 020 7364 7900 www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/arts @THevents @towerhamletsnow #Bangladrama16 Message from the ‘A’ Team Arts presents Mayor of Tower Hamlets Rapture Welcome to A Season of Bangla Drama! I am delighted that Thursday 3 - this longstanding and much-loved festival of theatre is back Saturday 5 November in the borough for the fourteenth year running. It promises to be a busy and diverse programme, incorporating music and Doors 7pm, Show 7.30pm dance, comedy and tragedy; a real treasure trove of offerings Brady Arts Centre with a nod to tradition, alongside some contemporary twists English and universal themes. £8/£5 concessionary Performances will be complemented by a fringe programme of talks, walks and exhibitions. With imaginative and topical performances this promises to be an enjoyable and thought-provoking programme with immense talent on display. I am Credits proud we are able to offer such a high calibre festival, and with productions in both Bangla and English, there really is something for everyone. I hope that you will come Writer/Director: Dr Canan Salih production which went to the Edinburgh along and enjoy what’s on offer. Cast: Samira Ahmed, Ummi Hussain, Celia Fringe Festival in August. Sellah, Shah Yusuf Ahmed, Nahid Uddin, John Biggs Chafia Bouakkaz, Sumaiya Chowdhury, Look behind the veil to find the truth. Precious Otunuga, Ishmael Uddin, Iury Mayor of Tower Hamlets Campos, Nazmul Khan and Ersan Korudag About the company Message from Associate Synopsis ‘A’ Team Arts is Tower Hamlets Council’s youth arts division. It co-ordinates Youth Director for Community Affairs, You see a hijab - I see a rapper. Rapture Arts programmes across the Borough Canary Wharf Group Plc is a dynamic youth theatre performance aimed at young people aged 13-19 which uses rap music and spoken word years, and up to 25 years with SEN, who As in previous years, Canary Wharf Group are delighted to to tell the story of a young Muslim woman live or study in Tower Hamlets. Using be associated with A Season Of Bangla Drama 2016. We take who wears her hijab as an actual and theatre, textiles, design, and music, artists pride in supporting local community initiatives, events such as metaphorical veil to her true identity. Our and young people learn, discover and this creates a platform for local emerging writers, performers heroine is AJ. She longs to belong and experiment. Ideas are transformed and and directors from the community to showcase their talent. The writes amazing rap lyrics, but her talents translated into performances, exhibitions 2015 season had a great selection of drama, music dance and go largely unnoticed. Loosely based on and personal works of art to share talks that incorporated a range of tropical themes. I hope the 2016 season continues to Cyrano De Bergerac, it explores truth, with friends, families, the community or aspire audiences through its many performances that once again challenge, stimulate deception, influence and friendship by sometimes a much wider public. and entertain our community by exploring the Bengali culture and heritage. I’d like focusing on women in Hip-Hop and to extend my congratulations to the organisers for once again delivering a highly women in Islam, marginalisation and To get involved contact successful and entertaining event. radicalisation in East London. [email protected] This has been put together by the council’s Zakir Khan youth arts division and has engaged Associate Director for Community Affairs young people from Tower Hamlets in Canary Wharf Group Plc writing, devising and performing in a A Season of 2 Bangla Drama 3 Eastern Thespians presents The Tagoreans presents Footfall Bashikaran (Spellbound) Friday 4 - industrial accident. Over 500 workers are Sunday 6 November killed when a shoe factory is set ablaze. Saturday 5 November This highlights the awful plight that arises Doors 6pm, Show 6.30pm Doors 7pm, Show 7.30pm from an avoidance of health and safety Rich Mix Rich Mix issues and enflames public opinion. It Bangla explores the corruption and criminal English negligence of four key protagonists when £10/£8 concessionary £10/£8 concessionary moral values are eroded to the point www.tagoreans.org www.easternthespians.com where profit takes priority over human life. In a consumer driven market where global corporations rule, who will take Credits Credits responsibility and where does the buck stop? Director: Jayanta Ray Synopsis Writer/Director: Debasish Banerjee Executive Producer: Manoshi Barua Technical team: Arjun Sen, Wasim Makeem About the company Production Concept and Design: Gairika Gupta, This rarely performed short play by Tagore Javed Manoshi Barua and Jayanta Ray is a comedy of errors about how two Back stage and props and publicity: Established in 2012, Eastern Thespians is Guidance and Inspiration: Gairika Gupta friends, the devout and deeply religious Urmi Roy Singh, Adrika Sen, Nilanjana a contemporary theatre group based in Compere: Srabani Sen Aashu and the more cynical and street Ray, Nandini Basu-Mullick London. Drawing on the rich resources of Sound and Light: Mohua Kini and Rajat Dey smart Annada, interact with two radically Photography: Bart Lenoir. http://lenoir.photo, both eastern and western life, thought, Stage Management: Aindrila Ghosh and different women, to meet their own Shobhon Ahmed philosophy and art forms, both traditional Arjun Sen individual agendas. The subtext uses a Cast: Chandrayee Sengupta, Koushik and contemporary, they are committed to Backstage Support: Adrika Sen, Alinda backdrop of traditional Bengali culture to Chatterjee, Shiblu Chowdhury, Samrat presenting live theatre that is vital, thought Barua, Nivedita Bose, Tanusree Guha, question orthodoxy and social mores but Sengupta, Debasish Banerjee provoking and engaging. Their aim is to Saroj Barua, Shahadat Hossain, with a deliciously funny and light-hearted produce theatre in all its genres which Sourav Niyogi approach. Synopsis appeals to London’s multilingual and Front of House Support: Asit Das, Biswajit multicultural community. Gupta About the company Set in the year 2015 in a non-specified Make Up and Costumes: Aindrila Ghosh, country in Southeast Asia, this dark Manoshi Barua, Kalyan Kundu The Tagoreans is the oldest Bengali comedy is an exposé of a multi-national Rehearsal Support: Aparna Gupta, Dipali cultural organisation in the UK. company which backtracks through time to Das, Jyotsna Mukherjee Established in 1965, It believes in unpick the events that led to a devastating Photography: Saroj Barua Rabindranath Tagore’s philosophy of life Videography: Imdad Rahman and draws inspiration from his creativity Cast: Jayanta Ray, Suman Bhattacharya, in literature, music and art. It encourages Satyaban Sarkar,Amrita Ghosh, Kalyan participation from all sections of the Kundu, Manisha Smith, Manoshi Barua, community. Sujoya Ray, Shahadat Hossain, Adrika Sen, Alinda Barua, Tanusree Guha, Aparna Gupta, Dipali Das, Jyotsna Mukherjee and Nivedita Bose A Season of 4 Bangla Drama 5 Monchoshoilee presents Mukul and Ghetto Tigers presents Spordha (The Audacity) Mishti Gals Sunday 6 November Cast: Humayun Kabir Mahin, Jahanara Friday 11 - Akhter Shimla, Raj Ds, Ahmed Zarin, Syeda Doors 7pm, Show 7.30pm Tasmia, Dr Tahseen Alam Choudhury, Saturday 12 November Brady Arts Centre Ziaur Rahman Saklen, Arifuzzaman Syed, Doors 7pm, Show 7.30pm Bangla Suaib Adamjee, Syed Tariqul Islam, Fazle Arts 1, Pinter Studio, QMUL Rabbi, Mufid Ur Rahman, Md Shaikhul £8/£5 concessionary Islam, Rahman N Chowdhury Bangla/English £8/£5 concessionary Credits Synopsis www.mukulandghettotigers.com Conflict among generations is exposed Writer: Abdullah Al Mamun whereby the allure of money over Creative Director: Sudip Chakroborthy Credits is also augmented by the physical and responsibility results in the erosion of Director: Raj Ds fast-changing cityscape in which they moral values, the neglect of elderly Production Manager: Ziaur Rahman Saklen Play by: Raminder Kaur Kahlon live; the juxtaposition of ex-local authority parents and the terrible consequences of Co-production Manager: Arifuzzaman Syed Directed by: Mukul Ahmed tenements with the hypermodern high- corruption. It focuses around the plight of Translators: Syeda Tasmia Tahia and Syed Executive Producer and Asst. Director: rises of E1, symbolising old and new an ageing couple; whose offspring are in Tariqul Islam Rez Kabir lifestyles. The protagonists are friends thrall to materialism and luxury over and Lighting Designer: Humayun Kabir Mahin Production Manager: with longstanding histories but their above the wellbeing of their parents. Light by: Md Shaikhul Islam Delwar Hossain Dilu relationships are not without conflict Costume Designer: Syeda Tasmia Tahia About the company Lighting Designer: Paul Micah and as dark secrets come to light, the Music and Sound Design: Raj Ds Design: Mukul Ahmed challenges which stem from cultural and Sound Designer: Labik Kamal Gaurab Music and Sound By: Rahman N Chowdhury Monchoshoilee is a British Bangladeshi geographical displacement are also Set Design: Sudip Chakroborthy, Humayun Stage Manager: Charlotte Wilson revealed. theatre group, working across the fields Choreography: Pinache Khan Kabir Mahin, Ziaur Rahman Saklen and of creative art, drama, dance, movement, Raj Ds Cast: Urmee Mazher, Saida Tanim, Saima
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