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EZCC organises six-day Kolkata Theatre Festival

by Trans World Features | @twfindia 29 Jan 2019, 12:40 am

Kolkata, Jan 15: The Eastern Zonal Cultural Centre (EZCC), Ministry of Culture, Government of India organised a six-day Kolkata Theatre Festival at its Bharatiyam Cultural Multiplex in Salt Lake City in late December 2018.

Theatre personality Bibhas Chakraborty inaugurated the festival.

Six well-known Bengali plays were presented at the festival which ended today.

The plays were ‘Ghatok Biday’ (playwright: Soumitra Chatterjee), a Shyambazar Mukhomukhi  production, directed by Poulomi Chatterjee; ‘Ratan Sir’ (playwright: Tirthankar Chanda), a Bohurupee production, directed by Debesh Roy Chowdhury; Chandan Sen’s play ‘Punoruthhan’, a Sayak production, directed by Meghnad Bhattacharya; ‘Byatikram’ (Rudraprasad Sengupta’s adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s drama), a Nandikar production, also directed by Rudraprasad Sengupta; ‘Athoi Jal’ (script: Ujjwal Chattopadhyay), a Purba Paschim production, directed by Bratya Basu; and Mohit Chattopadhyay’s ‘Rajrakta’, an Anya Theatre production, directed by Bibhas Chakraborty.