The 12th National Theatre festival Canfest 2015 held at Paradip port town staged a Bengali play Putuler Chithi (Doll’s letter) in its fifth day carnival on Monday. Kolkata-based theatre organisation Aarshi presented the play and Abanti Chakrabarti directed the solo stage show.
The play is based on Henric Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. This is a story of a woman Nora who loves life but she is a doll to her husband. She is sensitive, sensible and completely unaware of her own values, but in last part of the play a small incident transforms Nora from a doll to a completely independent woman who fights for maintaining her respect and dignity.
Altogether it is a monologue play and the main woman character was performed by Senjuti Mukhopadhya and the play had drawn rapt attention. The fourth evening of the Canfest theater festival witnessed a house full show of play ‘A Road to Mecca’ staged by the Banjara Group from Mumbai. Director Rashi Bunny, while introducing the cast, divulged that the character of Helen Braganza was played by her mother Kirron Bhatnagar. Eminent actor Naresh Suri addressed the audience at the end of the play.