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Sandesha to host Binodini today

Staff Correspondent

It is an English audio-visual dance drama

MANGALORE: The Sandesha School of Fine Arts will host Binodini, an English audio-visual dance drama focussing on the contribution of a sex worker to theatre, at the school here on Wednesday, according to Denis D'Sa, director, Sandesha Foundation.

Addressing presspersons here on Tuesday, he said the drama was produced by Kumkum Majumdar, Mumbai, and directed by Prabal Kishore Majumdar. A Russian violinist and cultural worker Gerasim Stepanovich Labeddeff founded the Bengali theatre in the then Calcutta by adapting an English play in Bengali. It was staged as the first Indian proscenium stage play on November 27, 1795. In the play, women, who came from a group of sex workers, enacted the female roles.

Binodini was a dancer, singer and actor who motivated sex workers to engage themselves in theatre activities. She too came from a group of sex workers. But she did not act in the play in 1795. She involved herself in theatre activities in later years.

The play tells the true story of Binodini. She spent her time and money to promote theatre. The narrative of the play is done through audio-visual elements.

Mr. D'Sa claimed that this kind of an audio-visual dance drama was being presented in Mangalore for the first time.

The drama will be followed by Rabindra Sangeeth. The students of the school will present a dance "Stree Shakthi''. It will be presented at the Sandesha Kalabhavan at 6.15 p.m.

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