The Dhaka Times Desk Recently, the British Council in partnership with Dhaka Theater staged a play titled “Naishabde '71” ('71 in Silence) at the Bangladesh Mahila Samity's Neelima Ibrahim Auditorium located on New Bailey Road in the capital.
The play was staged as part of the celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the British Council in Bangladesh and 50 years of Bangladesh's independence.
The play is directed by Ramesh Meiyappan, a Glasgow-based stage dramatist in Singapore. He delivers exceptional performances by simultaneously balancing visual and physical theater styles. 15 highly talented artists from eight divisional cities of the country participated in this 30-minute performance. They portrayed the liberation war of Bangladesh by following different methods of acting.
The event is a part of British Council's DARE (Disability Arts Redefining Empowerment) project in partnership with Dhaka Theatre. The Dare Project aims to build bridges and spaces of trust between the country's disability and arts sectors. It is dispelling society's misconceptions associated with physical or mental disability as well as establishing a link between art, physical or mental disability and society. Dare launched in 2019 in partnership with Dhaka Theatre. Since then it is functioning in eight divisional cities of the country. Under this project, specially abled artists and artists from local theater organizations are working together to get a better understanding of how to work with disability theater with the aim of creating a sustainable platform for disability arts.
Ramesh Meiyappan said, “When the meaning of the name Bangladesh was explained to me in sign language, I was able to understand the passion behind the history of this country. The passion shown by this adventurous group to bring out this history through extraordinary expressions of suffering and pain is truly unparalleled. I would like to thank the British Council and Dhaka Theater for taking the effort to listen and understand people from all walks of life a step further by creating an opportunity for these people to speak their minds.”
How Bangladesh was before the war, how the war started and the aftermath of the war, the play "Naishabde '71" dramatizes the history of the birth of Bangladesh. The play is staged using physical storytelling techniques. News bulletins.
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