Festivals
NABARUN 2018
In the memory of Nabarun Bhattacharya we organised a cultural festival with 5 plays, one documentary film on Nabarun one discussions on Nabarun's writings and his plays. Also there were huge collections of books and a poster exibition with Nabarun's poetry.
This festival was financially supported by Ministry of Culture, Government of India.
BADAL MELA 2019
In the memory of Sir Badal Sircar we organised our Badal Mela 2019 on 13-14 July at Tripti Mitra Natyagriha where five plays are performed and there was a seminar on Sir Badal Sircar's philosphy
BADAL MELA 2018
On 14th & 15th July, 2018 at Tripti Mitra Natyagriha Gotroheen organised Badal Mela in the memory of Sir Badal Sircar on his 93rd birthday ceremony. Six plays were performed on that festival. Six plays & one documentory.
The festival started with the screening of documentory film Pakhira. This film is on work and philosophy of Badal Sircar. After the screening Jonaki Howara presented their play Abishwaser Bastab followed by the play Thake Sudhu Nachiketa by Shatabdi.
On the second day the first play was Shatru Daman Payes (a play for children) by Jhalapala Dumdum. Tagore's Muktadhara was performed by Uhinee Kolkata. The third production was Dewal Babu Janla Babu by Nakshtra followed by Gotroheen’s new play Angshik Chandragrahan.
BADAL MELA 2017
On 14th & 15th July, 2017 at Tripti Mitra Natyagriha Gotroheen organised Badal Mela in the memory of Sir Badal Sircar on his birthday ceremony. Six plays were performed on that festival.
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Astam Garbho by Gotroheen (Dumdum)
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Ore Bihango (a play by Badal Sircar) performed by Shatabdi
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Bagh (a play by Badal Sircar) performed by Ayna
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Hattomalar Opare (a play by Badal Sircar) performed by Gotroheen (Dumdum)
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Dwirath (a play by Badal Sircar) performed by Prasthan
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Bhulrasta (a play by Badal Sircar) performed by Gotroheen (Dumdum) Workshop based production.
* For pictures of Badal Mela go to Photo Gallery.
Alternative Theatre Festival 2015
Due to lack of fund we could not organise any festival in 2013. In 2014-2015, again we organised Theatre Festival. The festival was segregated in three phases.
1) SEMINAR & ONE PLAY:: On 13th November, 2014 at Gyan Mancha, Kolkata
Seminar on NATAK-NABARUN-NASHAKATA (Drama-Nabarun-Subversion)
Speakers : Sri Ashok Mukhopadhyay, Sri Debesh Chattopadhyay, Sri Anshuman Bhowmick andSri Samrat Mukherjee
The Seminar was foilowed by our play Fyatarur Kissa (based on Nabarun Bhattacharya's short stories)
2) ALTERNATIVE THEATRE FESTIVAL:: On 14th & 15th February, 2015 at Mohit Moitra Mancha, Kolkata
Here is the schedule of that festival...
3) INTIMATE THEATRE FESTIVAL:: On 20th May, 2015 at Tripti Mitra Natyagriha, Kolkata
In this festival Saboteur Art perfored Badal Sircar's play Charuibhati and Gotroheen performed Astam Garbho.
For more pictures go to Photo Gallery.
Alternative Theatre Festival 2012
Gotroheen (Dumdum) organised a four days theatre festival from 8th - 11th November, 2012 at Mohit Moitra Mancha, Kolkata.
Emninent theatre director Sri Debesh Chattopadhyay inaugurated the festival. Here we felicitated playwright Sri Hara Bhattacharya. |
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Here four proscenium plays three open air plays, songs of Bengali plays and an Natua performance were performed. We named open air space Badal Prangan in the name of Late Badal Sircar and named the stage as Mohit Mancha in the name of playwright Mohit Chattopadhyay.
ASTAM GARBHO
Group: Gotroheen (Dumdum)
Playwright & Direction: Supratim Roy
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ASTITWER AKAR
Group: Agarpara Natyajan
Playwright: Hara Bhattacharya
Direction: Satya Bhaduri
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SONGS OF BENGALI THEATRE
Songs from different Bengali plays
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TAGER GALPO
Group: Jhalapala
Direction: Santanil Ganguly
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NATUA
A folk form of Purulia, West Bengal
Group: Hariram Kalindi & his troop
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KRISHNAKALI
Group: ALT
Direction: Subhadeep Guha
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SARARATTIR
Playwright: Badal Sircar
Group: Gotroheen (Dumdum)
Direction: Supratim Roy
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RAKTAKARABI
Playwright: Rabindranath Tagore
Group: Pathasena
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NEELKANTHA DESH
Group: Gotroheen (Dumdum)
Playwright & Direction: Supratim Roy
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Alternative Theatre Festival 2011
The Festival was held 3rd - 6th November, 2011 at Sujata Sadan, Kolkata. In this festival five plays were performed.
Seminar
Also a Seminar on Low Cost Theatre was organised. The speakers are Prabir Guha, Arpita Ghosh, Abanti Chakraborty and Satya Bhaduri as anchor.
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Felicitation
We felicited Sri Subhasis Gangopadhyay and veteran theatre artist Smt. Debjani Gupta.
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This festival is supported by Ministry of Culture, Government od India.