Three stage plays at Shilpakala today

Three plays “Arsenic And Old Lace”, “Shey Ek Shopner Raat” and “Antaraler Ayna” will be staged at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy this evening.
Open Space Theatre will stage “Arsenic And Old Lace” at the academy’s National Theatre Hall at 6:30pm. The play is written by American playwright Joseph Kesselring. M Arifur Rahman has translated and directed the play.

“Arsenic and Old Lace” opens in the living room of the Brewster home, inhabited by two spinster aunts, Abby and Martha Brewster, and their nephew, Teddy. The Reverend Dr. Harper is chatting with Abby about her other nephew, Mortimer, a drama critic who is in love with the reverend’s daughter Elaine. Teddy, who is rather crazy but harmless, believes himself to be Theodore Roosevelt. Things begin to unravel as Mortimer lifts the lid to the window seat.

The cast of the play includes Mahjabeen Chowdhury Tisha, Iftakhar Mahi, Raihan Ahmed Dip, Rafayatullah Sohan, Rahat Ahmed, S. Rahman and others.

Theatre troupe Dristipat Natyadal will stage its production “Shey Ek Shopner Raat” at the Experimental Theater Hall of Shilpakala at 6:30pm.

The play has been written and directed by Khandaker Tazmi Noor. The cast of the play includes Adhara Priya, Safayet, Abdul Haleem Aziz, Rafique, Bacchu, Khandaker Tazmi Noor, and others.

The story of “Shey Ek Shopner Raat” is about two people’s psychological conflict. A bottle of perfume causes tension in the couple Arnab and Bela. Bela got it as a gift from her old friend Russell. As its scent permeates the room, the distance between the two increases. Then the story of the play continues.

Soukhin Theatre will stage “Antaraler Ayna” at Studio Theater Hall at 6:30pm. The play, based on Nobel Prize-winning Italian playwright Dario Luigi Angelo Fo’s play titled The Virtuous Burglar, has been directed by Hamidur Rahman Pappu.