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Homapakhi
Hosted by the Tagore Centre UK
The Tagore Centre UK will host the performance Homapakhi, a drama produced by Cinetel of Kolkata at Bloomsbury Theatre, London and Eastwood Park Theatre, Glasgow.
Sraboni, a psychiatrist based in London, returns home to Kolkata, to escape the emptiness of her personal life and impending divorce. With hope in her heart she seeks support from her mother but is quickly let down by her mother’s mind-set and lack of understanding.
Alone and with a sense of personal failure, Sraboni seeks the company of others that may help her plight but once she realises there is no one she finds solace in the one man she hopes will help her out of her misery; her old college professor, Niranjan Ganguly. At first all is well, but slowly Sraboni finds that Niranjan is involved in a personal world of his own where no one really means anything to him and nothing really matters. And it is not long that she realises the only person that can help break her out of this psychological prison… is himself a prisoner.
Esteemed actor and director Soumitra Chatterjee performs with a prestigious cast in this presentation of Homapakhi, a play written by London-based playwright Amit Ranjan Biswas.
In English and Bengali.
Tickets £10, £15, £20
Director: Soumitra Chatterjee
Script: Dr Amit Ranjan Biswas
Cast: Soumitra Chatterjee, Poulami Bose, Uma Bose, Aloknanda Roy, Anandi Ghosh and others
Singers: Swagata Lahsmi Dasgupta, Sushanta Mukhopadhyay and Srikanata Acharya
Saturday 7 July 2007
The Bloomsbury Theatre
15 Gordon Street
London WC1H 0AH
The Bloomsbury Theatre is located in central London, near Euston, Euston Square, Goodge Street and Warren Street tube stations. The nearest mainline railway station is Euston. It is also close to many bus routes including 10, 18, 24, 29 73 91, 168 and 253.
Tickets £10 - £15 - £20
For further information about the performance in Bloomsbury, please contact: 020 8886 2567 - 020 8907 8278 - 020 8368 4302
Bloomsbury box office 020 7388 8822
Sunday 8 July 2007
Eastwood Park Theatre
Rouken Glen Road
Giffnock
Glasgow G46 6UG
Tickets £8
For further information about the performance in Eastwood Park, please contact: 01475 727138 - 01505 703252
Homapakhi
"In the loftiest heights at the extremities of paradise... A being too ethereal to be sentient... An entity untainted by the temporal... Known in the ancient scriptures as one who can never be brought down to earth... Homapakhi...
The Vedas described Homapakhi as the mythical bird perpetually in flight, who even lays eggs that hatch in space as they fall through the immense distance between other beings and Homapakhi. Their young ones learn to fly in space, where they incubate. They remain in perpetual motion because they never need to return to terra firma...
... the play gives us hope that Sraboni will be able to deal with her personal hemisphere, but will Niranjan Ganguly be able to do so for himself? Is there no one to unlock his world for him, to free him from his manic loneliness? Or must he be in perpetual flight, uncontaminated by the temporal?
A Homapakhi of our times..."
(Texts extracted from www.cineteltrust.org)
Images courtesy: Eastern India Cinetel Welfare Trust
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Eastern India Cinetel Welfare Trust