‘Two Strangers Versus Oleander Flower’ to be staged at Shilpakala today
Photo: Courtesy Arts & Entertainment Desk Arts & Entertainment Desk Dui Agontuk Bonam Korobi Ful (Two Strangers Versus Oleander Flower), presented by Space and Acting Research Center, will be staged today at the Studio Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy (BSA).
Directed by Ashish Khandaker, the 33rd production of the play will have two shows, one at 7 pm and another at 8 pm at the BSA.
There will be an environmental and a studio version of the play. The episode of the studio version will integrate aspects of the pandemic into the play. According to the director, the play will remind audiences about the helplessness of human beings during this global pandemic and how these trying times affected the human mind and soul.
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Bharti Kher, ‘Intermediaries’, 2019–20 (installation view, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka). Courtesy the artist; Nature Morte, New Delhi; Samdani Art Foundation, Dhaka; and Perrotin, Paris, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo and Shanghai
It’s been a long time since the biennial Dhaka Art Summit took place in February this year. In more ways than one. The fact that it was titled Seismic Movements, a play on the notion of the summit as being something geological as much as social and political (or ‘how the world is moving and how we move in the world’, as the summit’s chief curator, Diana Campbell Betancourt, put it in her introduction in the catalogue – a theme that seemed to be summed up by Bharti Kher’s
Two new releases breathe life into the silver screen
After months of closure and two months of lukewarm attendance, Bashundhara City’s Star Cineplex saw some bustle yesterday. Officials assure that social distancing and other health protocols are being strictly followed. Photo: Sheikh Mehedi Morshed
After weeks of lull in terms of new releases, movie theatres across the city were set abuzz by two new releases, that too on the same day.
This Friday marked the release of noted television director Chayanika Chowdhury s debut film, Bishwoshundori and Ekushey Padak winner Tanvir Mokammel s seventh feature film, Rupsha Nodir Baanke (Quiet Flows the River Rupsha).