Theatre activists, academics and practitioners on Wednesday said that a new political reality impacted art practice which created new aesthetics and language.
They also said that beside regular auditoriums, theatre activists should work at different marginal points of the capital and across the country to flourish this audience-oriented art form.
They made the remarks at a discussion titled 鈥楤otTalar Alap: July Parabarti Theatre Charcha- Prasna Nirman Naki Prothagata Uttorer Khela鈥� organised by theatre troupe BotTala to mark their 17th founding anniversary at the seminar room of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy in the capital.
Actor and cultural activist Humayun Azam Rewaz presents the keynote paper at the event while popular playwright-actor Mohammad Bari, director-actors Naila Azad Nupur, Azad Abul Kalam, Bakar Bakul, Asadul Islam, director-designer Dhiman Chandra Barman, Dhaka University theatre and performance studies department associate professor Shahman Moishan, among others, spoke at the event moderated by DU鈥檚 sociology department Professor Samina Luthfa.
Humayun Azam Rewaz focused on many crises of contemporary theatre practice including stagnation after the July mass-uprising, failure of the group theatre federation and other cultural organisations to develop the country theatre practices as a profession and other regular issues in his paper.
Dhiman Chandra Barman said, 鈥楢lthough we have practiced theatre since a long time, we could not build enough infra-structure for proper theatre practice across the country.鈥�
Bakar Bakul said that people could not be able to criticise the political parties, which is an obstacle to ensure democracy since the war of independence.
Mohammad Bari said that the theatre activists were not aware of professional theatre practice. He alleged that the military camp still had not been withdrawn from the BSA premise even after one year.
Asadul Islam said that the government invests a small amount in the cultural sector, and, that is why a lot of production cannot be staged at marginal areas of the country.
