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Welcome to taste spicy Bengalee stage drama.
We are community based non-profitable drama group focusing to
promote own cultural activities, bridging between our ancestral
visions and views with new habitat. As first generation migrants, we
suffer with Conflicts of values and beliefs and through a painful
process we end up with a new cultural recipe. We focus to provide
next generation a transparent understanding of their predecessor's
way of life: encouraging them to be in constant touch of mother
language, motherland and large extended family.
Most of the members may inherit intensive experience of stage
drama (known as Group Theatre activities at Bangladesh) but we are
not mainstream drama activists in Australia. Though we possess
demonstrated professional attitude and attributes, but our
implementation methods are restricted merely due to various limited
resources- we encounter multiple constrain and obstacles.
Inspired by the huge success of first production, we decided to
reshape ourselves with developed professionalism. As a group
theatre, our motto is to develop own resources and promote members
to be more participating all fields of a stage play.
In this production we endeavored to achieve total self-reliance:
members did it all. Moreover, members are writing and/or adopting
plays for the group considering community audiences expectations and
limited resources. Based on true riverine Bangladesh Diptoo
Chowdhury had written 'Dumbs Island', Wajih Al Hasan Rajib writing
comedy 'Kosim' and Abid Rahman had written his third satyre 'Life
Sketch'. We anticipate presenting few young talented directors very
very soon. We are also preparing for video productions for
Bangladeshi TV channels.
Naim Miraz was amazing with his vision and concepts. In his fifth
directed play 'Night Guest', he is matured and constant. In the
context of our community theatre here, it is the most professional
production ever.
Other than own community, we are grateful to Migrant Resources
Centre and City of Kingston for extending rehearsal venues,
Victorian Multicultural Commission for financial and Peridot Theatre
and Ms. Gaye Gay for support.
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