tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57903703129942742902024-03-13T07:45:48.838-07:00OFF-KENDRIKOff-Kendrikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17217994473941858185noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790370312994274290.post-72151034184194386442016-05-30T20:27:00.005-07:002016-05-30T20:27:44.133-07:00Tickets for the latest show of VOICES can be bought at:<br />
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<span id="yiv9412780622yui_3_16_0_1_1463685554551_7410" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">“Voices “ is a collective journey presented through the lens of South Asian immigrants and their children. A rich mosaic of South Asian immigrant experiences in the Greater Boston area is presented through intimate storytelling: stories of<span id="yiv9412780622yui_3_16_0_1_1463685554551_7411" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"> </span>cultural snafus, verbal gaffes, experiences that are historic in nature, teenage games and unexpected phone calls. Eight presenters speak about sometimes intimate, often life-changing events or issues that they have grappled with or continue to endure in this country. These are people from the community, with no formal theater experience, who want to share their stories. The group includes people who have lived here for over fifty years as well as young adults that have grown up in the Boston suburbs. Presented through a multilingual format (Bangla and English), this tapestry covers fifty years of multigenerational experience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Boro Holo Ja, an award winning play being staged by Off-Kendrik, has its roots in Sukumar Ray’s (Satyajit
Ray's dad) Bengali classic “Ha Ja Ba Ra La”, which in turn was inspired by Lewis Carrol’s “Alice in
Wonderland”. In Ray’s original tale a young, unnamed child, similar to Alice, falls asleep under a shady
tree and wakes up to a world occupied by talking animals, unidentifiable creatures and strange humans.
Boro Holo Ja is a Bengali anagram of Ha Ja Ba Ra La, but unlike the nonsensical title of the original, the
anagram spells out “Ja Comes of Age”. The young child of Ha Ja Ba Ra La, now named Ja, is currently in
New York. He appears to be a daily jobber in today’s rat race, a slave to the capitalist machine, but is he
truly? This play follows Ja in his plight through a world inhabited by demanding bosses, slick
consultants, lawyers seeking frivolous lawsuits, media savvy entrepreneurs, and fast talking hedge fund
managers. Through a series of episodes, the play presents a satirical look at today’s capitalistic society.
The style of the play falls within the theater of the absurd, and is reminiscent of works by Stoppard,
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Off-Kendrik is an 'independent' Bangla theater group in the greater Boston area. Several members of
the group trace their theater inspiration to the' group theater' movement in Kolkata. The group
produces plays based on 'original' writing by group members or adaptation from Bangla literature
including poetry. Our work can be found at www.offkendrik.blogspot.com. Some samples are present
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Different kinds of gait involving the different areas of the torso, the point of which was to notice the very different expressions they generate: head walking (thoughtfulness), chest walking (pomposity), and waist walking (shyness or instability). Then each participant employed all three styles, switching at random. Finally, each person emulated the walking style of someone else in the team.</span><br />
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Off-Kendrikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17217994473941858185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790370312994274290.post-85090528714926501582011-12-18T11:24:00.000-08:002011-12-18T11:24:53.729-08:00Retreat 2011After its first retreat in November 2009, Off-Kendrik had its second retreat from November 18 to 21, 2011 at the same rented house in Cape Cod. The group’s primary objective this year was to explore possibilities of a future production stemming from Sukumar Ray’s “Ha Ja Ba Ra La”. <br />
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The workshop took three forms, albeit with a common goal: characterization. In the first phase, each of seven individuals drew on one character from “Ha Ja Ba Ra La” to improvise in the face of an aggressive interrogation. An “outsider” (i.e. someone not playing any character from the play) intimidated them by asking random, intrusive questions, and each person had to respond immediately with the mannerisms of the specific character from the play that s/he represented. The second exercise, in contrast, was a monolog prepared over a short time. As previously, the delivery was meant to exploit the idiosyncrasies of specific “Ha Ja Ba Ra La” characters, while the contents were the performers’ own. What is more, each performer interacted with an object of personal choice during the monolog, but in a manner incongruent to the basic identity of the object; for instance, while a book was used as a phone in one monolog, a cushion served as a book in another. Also planned over a short time, the third workout was conversational. Each group of two or three players engaged in an absurd exchange for a few minutes, building the conversation around the essential traits of Ray’s characters being portrayed. All of these performances were meticulously photographed and videotaped. <br />
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In addition to the above exercises, scenes from Utpal Dutta’s “Ajker Shajahan” and D.L. Roy’s “Shajahan” were read. Finally, Dyuti Mazumdar, the group’s photographer, photographed some of the members in a variety of expressive moments. <br />
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In light of these activities, it was decided that more concerted efforts would be made to produce a script with fodder from “Ha Ja Ba Ra La”, and that the reading from scripts of well-known plays would be made into a regular practice at the group’s monthly meetings.<br />
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Location: 380 Cambridge Street, Burlington, MA 01803. (on Route 3A- at the border of Burlington and Billerica; signboard says "Atlantis Playmakers")<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px; text-align: left;"></span></span><br />
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1st Show: 5pm (2 plays with a 15 minute break between them)<br />
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2nd Show: 7.30 pm (2 plays with a 15 minute break between them)<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Sunday June 5th</span> - 4 pm (2 plays with a 15 minute break between them)<br />
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Tickets:<span style="font-weight: bold;"> $10/person.</span> Call Ticketmaster @ 508-285-3988; 857-205-4985; 508-269-8091.<br />
(This is an intimate space with a seating of 40 persons/show; patrons are encouraged to purchase tickets in advance)<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Mobius Strip</span><br />
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Join the ends of a piece of sticky tape with a single twist and two surfaces and two edges turn into a remarkable loop with a single surface and a single edge, a Mobius Strip. The play starts with Manashi and Aman in a lazy weekend chat in their suburban US living room. Before the evening party, Aman insists on visiting the Mobius Strip cafe, which holds the clue to his unfinished fantasy, and his abrupt departure leaves Manashi in tears. At the cafe, we meet the same two characters in Kolkata struggling with their personal and political dilemmas in a rapidly globalizing society. Snapshots of contemporary Aman-Manashi twist and warp with space and time, and distinct surfaces and edges blur, as in a Mobius Strip. (Runtime: 40 minutes)<br />
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Written and Directed by Sankha<br />
Actors: Adhiraj, Sohini/Anindita, Gourab, Pragati and others<br />
Lights/Sound: Rajib<br />
Poster and Photogrpahy: Dyuti<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Khagom</span><br />
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A pet snake, a holy man, a reporter, an opinionated urbanite, a curse, a strange night and a bizarre disappearance…..Satyajit Ray’s classic tale of mystery and mystics is adapted for stage against a contemporary backdrop. Here modern ideas of progress clash with indigenous beliefs, imposed authority spawns subversion, and the conclusion is left open-ended. (Runtime: 35 minutes)<br />
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Directed by Gourab<br />
Script: Sankha, Sunanda, Gourab<br />
Set: Sunanda <br />
Actors: Aunnesha, Urmila, Pragati, Anindita, Sohini, Samik, Sankha, Sunanda, Partha, Gourab<br />
Lights/Sound: Rajib<br />
Poster and Photogrpahy: Dyuti <br />
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</span>Off-Kendrikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17217994473941858185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5790370312994274290.post-45141037260676716332009-12-22T20:56:00.000-08:002010-01-11T20:30:10.549-08:00Catastrophe<div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"><br /><br />Fifteen members of Off-Kendrik had a weekend retreat (from November 14 to 16, 2009) at a rented house in Cape Cod. In addition to its usual leisurely chats (aka bh(N)atano, or adda in Bangla), the group discussed several prospective scripts and possibilities of future endeavors.<br /><br />Samuel Beckett’s minimalist play “Catastrophe” served as a point of departure for one interesting workshop, which unfolded in two phases. First, one person (“director”) guided one or more individuals (“characters”) into the arena; and with physical contact, silently steered them into taking specific arrested postures with narrative hints. As statuesque stills, they became human sculptures, or three-dimensional vignettes, for a short while. When a composition involved multiple “characters”, their poses were linked via an ambiguous narrative thread. They were then rearranged into successive (two or three) sequential compositions, which collectively conveyed a stronger sense of narrative than a single vignette. Several individuals took turns in playing the “director”, who also became a “character” through the process. What is more, the process emerged as equally, if not more, important than the final product.<br /><br />The entire group then participated in the final ---and most elaborate--- experiment in this vein. This time, the “director” verbally commanded an “assistant” to arrange each individual. Once the posture was taken, the “character” was photographed before being dismissed. After twelve individuals were thus posed, photographed, and released, all of them repositioned themselves on the previously assigned spots to articulate various aspects of what the “director” called “Urban Angst”, ranging from obsessive competition and multitasking, to schizophrenic immersion in virtual reality. The entire ensemble was then photographed from various positions.<br /><br />It seems, in light of this experience, that with judicious and precise use of movements, narrative clues, light, and audiovisual effects, such a performance strategy can yield meaningful results.<br /><br /><object width="500" height="375"> <param name="flashvars" value="offsite=true&lang=en-us&page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Foffkendrik%2Fsets%2F72157623082595040%2Fshow%2F&page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Foffkendrik%2Fsets%2F72157623082595040%2F&set_id=72157623082595040&jump_to="></param> <param name="movie" value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=71649"></param><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=71649" flashvars="offsite=true&lang=en-us&page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Foffkendrik%2Fsets%2F72157623082595040%2Fshow%2F&page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Foffkendrik%2Fsets%2F72157623082595040%2F&set_id=72157623082595040&jump_to=" width="500" height="375"></embed></object><br /><br /><object width="500" height="375"> <param name="flashvars" value="offsite=true&lang=en-us&page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Foffkendrik%2Fsets%2F72157622957832893%2Fshow%2F&page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Foffkendrik%2Fsets%2F72157622957832893%2F&set_id=72157622957832893&jump_to="></param> <param name="movie" value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=71649"></param> <embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=71649" flashvars="offsite=true&lang=en-us&page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Foffkendrik%2Fsets%2F72157622957832893%2Fshow%2F&page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Foffkendrik%2Fsets%2F72157622957832893%2F&set_id=72157622957832893&jump_to=" width="500" height="375"></embed></object><br /><br /><object width="500" height="375"> <param name="flashvars" value="offsite=true&lang=en-us&page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Foffkendrik%2Fsets%2F72157622957619211%2Fshow%2F&page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Foffkendrik%2Fsets%2F72157622957619211%2F&set_id=72157622957619211&jump_to="></param> <param name="movie" value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=71649"></param> <embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=71649" flashvars="offsite=true&lang=en-us&page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Foffkendrik%2Fsets%2F72157622957619211%2Fshow%2F&page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Foffkendrik%2Fsets%2F72157622957619211%2F&set_id=72157622957619211&jump_to=" width="500" height="375"></embed></object><br /><br /><object width="500" height="375"> <param name="flashvars" value="offsite=true&lang=en-us&page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Foffkendrik%2Fsets%2F72157622957550021%2Fshow%2F&page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Foffkendrik%2Fsets%2F72157622957550021%2F&set_id=72157622957550021&jump_to="></param> <param name="movie" value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=71649"></param> <embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=71649" flashvars="offsite=true&lang=en-us&page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Foffkendrik%2Fsets%2F72157622957550021%2Fshow%2F&page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Foffkendrik%2Fsets%2F72157622957550021%2F&set_id=72157622957550021&jump_to=" width="500" height="375"></embed></object><br /><br /><object width="500" height="375"> <param name="flashvars" value="offsite=true&lang=en-us&page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Foffkendrik%2Fsets%2F72157623082151240%2Fshow%2F&page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Foffkendrik%2Fsets%2F72157623082151240%2F&set_id=72157623082151240&jump_to="></param> <param name="movie" value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=71649"></param> <embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=71649" flashvars="offsite=true&lang=en-us&page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Foffkendrik%2Fsets%2F72157623082151240%2Fshow%2F&page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Foffkendrik%2Fsets%2F72157623082151240%2F&set_id=72157623082151240&jump_to=" width="500" height="375"></embed></object><br /><br /></div>Off-Kendrikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17217994473941858185noreply@blogger.com0