Basbhumi
The Hearthstone

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Playwright: Indrasish Lahiri
Music Composed by : Pundit Deepak Chaudhury
Set Design By : Uttam Dey
Direction and Light: Meghnad Bhattacharya

Cast

Anandomohon : Prabir Basu
Anima : Sultana Nahar
Rebati (Rotu): Luna Basu
Haimanti (Haimo): Angana Sur
Jayanti (Joey) : Urmi Mazumdar
Dhali Didi : Madhupa Chatterjee
Nikhilesh : Arijit Sur
Brijesh Shukla : Anando Mukherjee
Ratan Samanto (Jhankra Ratan) : Tuhin Sen
Kalicharan Sanyal : Sandip Mazumder
Nyapa : Arnab Sarkar
Mohon : Uttam Dey

Crew
 

Music Played by : Rehman Mehbubor
Light Assistance : Tanmay Hazra
Subtitle by : Srirupa Mazumder
Subtitle Played By : Subhayu Sarkar
Props : Dalia Renusch
Dress : Panchali Doermann

 

 

 

Sitaraha

The Stars

Original script by: Monirah Hashemi (Afganistan)
English translation by: Anna Zastrow (USA)
World premiere at: Riksteatern’s Teaterdagar (Sweden),
Directed by: Leif Persson, Riksteatern in Värmland (Sweden)
Acted By : Monirah Hashemi
 

 

 

Panel Discussion
 

“Theater as a Voice of Repressed Women”

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Panelists:
 

Monirah Hashemi : Playwright and Actor of the play “Sitarah : The Stars”
Leif Persson : Director of the play “Sitarah : The Stars”
Elizabeth Wellman : PhD graduate from the OSU Theater Dept. and also lectures at OSU
Jessie Glover : Faculty at Otterbein University
Dipan Ray : Founding Member, Epic Actor Workshop and South Asian Theater Festival
 

Moderator

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Prabir Das, Founding Member, All Shades Theater, Cincinnati, OH