THEATRE REPERTOIRE The Rabindra Bharati University Repertory Theatre The Department of Drama, Rabindra Bharati University, is starting a Repertory Theatre from October 2014. The project, planned, revised, and proposed by the Department since the last two decades, has finally been made viable only under the leadership and initiative of the present Vice Chancellor, Professor Sabyasachi BasuRoyChowdhury. The Repertory team, working under a Repertory Coordinator, will at present consist of ten ex-students of the Drama Department, who will receive intensive training in various modes of theatre, including utilization of various theatre spaces. Each year, it will produce plays in the proscenium and the off-proscenium modes, directed either by the Coordinator, or an invited eminent theatre person. The Department, while aware of the pitfalls and the typical problems faced by institutional Repertory theatres, has yet taken up the challenge with the following objectives in mind: 1. To train up a body of full-time theatre workers in West Bengal dedicated to theatre work, and help them acquire the efficiency to take up theatre as their profession later on. This, the Department hopes, will open up new avenues in the economic as well as the cultural field in the country. 2. To train up its members especially in theatre workshop praxes in order that they may themselves conduct theatre workshops in the remote parts of the land, with students and teachers of schools and colleges in rural West Bengal for example, and gradually spread theatre culture throughout the land, creating successive generations of theatre workers and theatre lovers. 3. To lay particular stress on Tagore’s drama to substantiate that Tagore’s plays were never aimed at the initiated few belonging to a restricted intellectual coterie, but are universal in appeal, if presented competently in the appropriate manner; and also to bring out, through interpretative renderings, the contemporary relevance of Tagore’s plays. As part of the process, the Repertory will also attempt dramatizations of Tagore’s poems and stories. These and such other ideals form the basis of the Repertory theatre. If theatre becomes a part of school curriculum in the envisioned future, the Rabindra Bharati University Repertory Theatre will be able to supply the academia not merely with Masters Degree holders in the theatre arts, but with a new generation of theatre teachers with concrete knowledge of play production and practical experience of theatre teaching.
Posted on: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 07:09:14 +0000
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