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Timeout 29-04-2006

Reinterpreting a dream

The Telegraph Online Published 29.04.06, 12:00 AM
Reinterpreting a dream
British Council, in association with Hutch and Tollygunge Club, presents an exciting new performance of Shakespeare?s A Midsummer Night?s Dream. The concept of this multi-lingual (English, Tamil, Malayalam, Sinhala, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi and a smattering of Sanskrit) production, bringing together acting talent from all across the Indian subcontinent, is unique. Besides reflecting the innovativeness of the UK arts scene and its openness to working in a multi-cultural context, it also makes a clear statement about how Shakespeare?s works can cut across cultural boundaries even 400 years after they were written. One of the most popular romantic comedies ever, the play offers a delightful mix of sense and nonsense, reality and fantasy, love and animosity, uncovering depths of meaning underneath apparently simple surfaces. What is most important about the play is that it approaches the text from a completely Indian perspective, attempting to illuminate with fresh clarity one of the world?s great folk plays. Direction: Tim Supple.

Event: Play, A Midsummer Night?s Dream, presented by British Council When: Today and tomorrow; 6.45 pm Where: Tollygunge Club

Art

Till April 29 at Gallery Royal, 30B Judges Court Road, 5th floor; 3 pm - 7 pm: Paintings by Paritosh Sen. Till April 30 at Genesis Art Gallery, 8B Middleton Street; 12 noon - 7 pm: Art Sonata, a special exhibition of the works of Ramananda Bandyopadhyay, Subroto Gangopadhyay, B.R. Panesar, Suhas Roy, Sanatan Dinda and others. Till April 30 at Gaganendra Pradarshashala; 2 pm - 8 pm: Kula Kundalini, original paintings by Dipankar Mani based on Vedantic lores. Till April 30 at Chitrakoot Art Gallery, 55 Gariahat Road; 3 pm - 8 pm: Paintings by Manoj Mitra. Till April 30 at Metropolitan Art Salon; 3 pm - 8 pm: Paintings by Suvasish Chattopadhyay. Till April 30 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture; 4 pm - 8 pm: Gunther Uecker - Man?s Inhumanity: 14 Pacified Implements. Till April 30 at Aakriti Art Gallery; 3 pm - 7 pm: A display of paintings by a group of young artists.

drama

April 29 at Girish Mancha; 6 pm: Nandikar presents Arthur Miller?s Feriwalaar Mrityu. Dir: Rudraprasad Sengupta. April 29 - May 1 at Academy of Fine Arts: Bohurupee presents a festival of plays (dir: Kumar Roy) to mark its completion of 58 years. April 29: Phulla Ketur Pala (3 pm); Piritee Parama Nidhi (6.30 pm). April 30: Sinduk (10.30 am); Mr. Kakatua (3 pm); Deepadanda (6.30 pm). May 1: Nisiddha Thikana (3 pm); Piritee Parama Nidhi (6.15 pm). April 30 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Sayak presents Basbhoomi. Dir: Meghnad Bhattacharya. April 30 at Padatik Little Theatre-II; 6.30 pm: Padatik presents its new play in Hindi, Ballavpur Ki Roopkatha. Dir: Pradip Roy. April 30 at Belghoria Pyarimohan Library Hall; 6.30 pm: Chetana presents Aapni Kone Dikey. Dir: Arun Mukhopadhyay.

performing arts

April 29 at Padatik Little Theatre-II; 6.30 pm: Padatik Dance Centre presents New Horizons in Kathak, a collage of experimental work of danseuse Chetna Jalan. April 30 at Gyan Manch; 6 pm: The annual cultural function of Calcutta Chapter of Karolbagh Bangiya Samsad, Delhi features Shrimati Hey, a programme on Tagore?s interaction with Kadambari Devi (dir: Chaitali Dasgupta), pantomime by Shantimoy Roy and his group and Octopus Limited, a one-act play by its drama unit. April 30 at Thakurbari, 91A Ahiritola Street; 6 pm: To celebrate its first anniversary, Seni Sangeet Sabha hosts an evening of classical music featuring Sudipta Dutta (dhrupad), Goutam Roy (pakhawaj), Souptik Ghosal (sitar) and others. April 30 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: To celebrate its 11th anniversary and to mark World Dance Day, Samskritiki Shreyaskar presents Nritya Umang, an evening of Kathak by the disciples of Rani Karnaa.

talk

April 29 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Vivekananda Hall; 6 pm: Mani Bhaumik will speak on So We Need God in the Age of Science? April 29 at Sri Aurobindo Bhavan, 8 Shakespeare Sarani; 6.15 pm: Aster Mira Patel will speak on India .. is the World?s Future. April 29 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 19 A&B Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7 pm: Swami Parmatmananda will speak in Bengali on Yog O Tahar Abhyas.

book launch

April 29 at Jibanananda Sabhaghar; 5.30 pm: The launch of a book comprising Tagore?s The Robbery of the Soil, along with some relevant ideas. Followed by a discussion on the book by Subhendu Dasgupta, Kalyan Rudra and Mohit Ray.

film show

April 29 at Bharatiya Samskriti Samsad, 10 J.L. Nehru Road; 6.30 pm: Screening of Antarctica, a film by Amarendra Chakraborty.

world dance day

April 29 at Rabindra Sadan: Morning session (10 am - 1 pm): Symposium on contemporary dance; speakers: Sadanand Menon, Samik Bandyopadhyay; film show: Cloudgate Dance Theatre (Taiwan). Evening session (6.30 pm - 9 pm): Contemporary dance presentation-I (choreography: Mei Kuang Li of Taiwan); contemporary dance presentation-II (choreography: Leng Poh Gee of Malaysia) and presentation by 12 group members of West Bengal Dance Group Federation.

exhibition

April 29 - May 10 at Soumya?s Creation, 57/9 Ballygunge Circular Road, 1st floor; 4 pm - 9 pm: Mati, an exhibition of designer kurtis and home accessories. April 29 - May 5 at 10 Gurusaday Road, 1D Ajanta Apts; 11 am - 8 pm: Breathing Space showcases its new collection of silver jewellery in Turkish designs, bold gold, Victorian and kundan shoulder dusters in fascinating textures and finishes.

reading

April 30 at G.D. Birla Sabhagar; 11 am: Professor P. Lal reads Sanjaya?s report of the 13th day?s battle, with Vyasa arriving personally to console his grandson Yudhisthira mourning Abhimanyu?s slaughter, by explaining the nature and meaning of death, in the 326th weekly session of his sloka-by-sloka English transcreation of Vyasa?s Mahabharata.

reunion

April 30 at Scottish Church Collegiate School; 6.30 pm: 5th reunion meet and cultural programme hosted by ex-students? association.

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