Asheshkritya
Playwright: Dr. Shahman Moishan
Director: Dr. Shahman Moishan
Description: Asheskritya is written by Shahman Moishan and presented as the inaugural play at the festival organized by the department in 2008.Ontological transcendence and micro-politics of personal relationship in an absurdist context that was engaged in this production through its very anti-realist acting and surrealist scenography aimed for the unknown aesthetics.
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Hamletmachine Co. Ltd.
Playwright: Based on Heiner Muller’s Hamletmachine
Director: Dr. Shahman Moishan
Description: Hamletmachine Co. Ltd. based on Heiner Muller’sHamletmachine performed by MA students in 2012 which reflected the postdramatic aesthetics and boldly contained the sexual politics, cross-gender conditions, criticism of neo-liberalism, performer’s self-reflexivity, notion of the death of the author and spirituality as well as rituals.
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Basanta Jagaran
Playwright: Frank Wedekind
Director: Dr. Shahman Moishan
Description: Basanta Jagaran is a semi deconstruction of Frank Wedekind’s proto expressionist play Spring Awakening wasproduced by the department for a 7 day long theatre festival in 2013, challenged and aesthetically attempted to negate and negotiate the modernist naturalistic approach which is a dominant school in Bangladeshi theatre.
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Prakriti Chita o Amaler Charalnama
Playwright: Rabindranath Tagore
Director: Dr. Shahman Moishan
Description: Prakriti Chita o Amaler Charalnama deconstructively based on Rabindranath Tagore’s three plays in a form of juxtaposition in terms of language, class and the relationship between ontology and cosmology which was performed in January 2016 at an international performance festival titled Happenings at Kolkata and Visva Bharati University in India.
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Piyar Alir Bhanga Mukh
Playwright: Dr. Shahman Moishan
Director: Dr. Shahman Moishan
Description: Piyar Alir Bhanga Mukh which is also rewritten in English as Shattered Faces of Piyar Ali produced by the Shakespeare Institute (University of Birmingham) in collaboration with Bangla Connection, United Kingdom, 2021 (staged in Birmingham, London and Verona in Italy).
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Birnggona Kabya
Playwright: Madhusudan Dutt
Director: Dr. Shahman Moishan
Description: Different organisations observed the bicentenary of the birth of poet Michael Madhusudan Dutt organising programmes in different parts of the country on 26 January, 2024. Dhaka University Nazrul Gobeshona Kendra, the university’s Bangla department and theatre and performance studies department jointly organised a daylong programme at the Natmandal of the university. The DU theatre and performance studies department premiered a play titled ‘Birangana Kabya’ at the venue in the evening as part of the event, which began at 9:30am. Wahida Mollick Jolly, Kazi Tamanna Haque Sigma and Somaiya Moni acted in the play based on Michael Madhusudan Dutt’s Birangana Kabya, which revolves around eleven women characters.
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Laal Mojlum
Playwright: Dr. Shahman Moishan
Director: Dr. Shahman Moishan
Description: Lal Majlum is a theatre production directed by Dr. Shahman Moishan. The play is a distinctive street play funded through public contributions. It sheds light on the violent legacy of the student-led mass uprising while interweaving the region’s pivotal mass uprisings throughout history. A peaceful performance program, in the form of a street theatre titled “Lal Majlum” commenced at Dhaka University’s Raju Memorial Sculpture on 16 November, 2024, marking the tragic events of the historic mass uprising of July-August.
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