| The Other
Festival - 2002
Dec 1- 7, 2002 Chinmaya Heritage Centre # 2, 13th Avenue Harrington Road, Chennai 600034 Music. Dance. Drama. Art. You. |
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USHA GANGULI (Kolkata), “Antar Yatra” Solo Theatre(Hindi), (75min)
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USHA GANGULI (Kolkata) a Sangeet Akademi awardee, leading the theatre group Rangakarmee for nearly twenty-five years now, remains essentially an actress who loves to take on challenging roles and seek to grow in the process. Trained as a dancer in the classical Indian modes, she strikes the delicate balance between formal rhythm and reality in the raw. Rangakarmee, which had its inception in January 1976, spear heads the Hindi theatre in Kolkata today, with fourteen productions on its live repertoire.
In “Antar
Yatra”, there is a whole history of Indian
womanhood played out in large enough social space covering middle class
homes and the urban working woman to the rural woman at the extreme
margins as well as dramatic moments in history in the nineteenth century
Bengal, Fascist Germany, and the seventeenth century Thirty
Years’ War in Germany. Resistance and rebellion, critical understanding
and assertion register different responses to deprivation, discrimination
and injustice, with Usha Ganguly’s sense of history and warmth
of concern
never betraying her into facile realism or sentimentality.
Contact:
usha_ganguli@rediffmail.com
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