Globe to Globe: The Tempest (2012)
Performed in Bangla with English subtitles. From a land constantly troubled by water, enter Shakespeare's mariners, wet and speaking Bangla. Performed by The Dhaka Theatre, Bangladesh's most prominent theatre group.
'This is the short and the long of it'
Part of the 2012 Globe to Globe Festival.
From a land constantly troubled by water, enter Shakespeare's mariners, wet and speaking Bangla. As well as pioneering new Bangladeshi drama, the Dhaka Theatre, Bangladesh's most prominent theatre group, has staged The Merchant of Venice and Brecht's The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui. Often called Bengali, Bangla is one of London's most widely spoken languages.
Synopsis
Prospero, Duke of Milan, usurped and exiled by his own brother, holds sway over an enchanted island. He is comforted by his daughter Miranda and served by his spirit Ariel and his deformed slave Caliban. When Prospero raises a storm to wreck his perfidious brother and his confederates on the island, his long contemplated revenge at last seems within reach.
Cast
Shimul Yousuf
ARIEL
Kamal Bayzid
STEPHANO
Shahiduzzaman Selim Khan
ALONSO
Khairul Islam Pakhi
FERDINAND
Md. Matius Shams
CALIBAN
Esha Yousuf
MIRANDA
Chowdhury Rubayet Ahmed
GONZALO
Samiun Jahan
TRINCULO
Shajjad Ahmed
SEBASTIAN
Rafiqul Islam
ANTONIO
Pijush Bandopadhaya
PROSPERO
Nil Moni Singha
SPIRIT
Bidhan Chandra Singha
SPIRIT
Creatives
Nasir Uddin Yousuff
DIRECTOR
Wasim Ahmed
TECHNICIAN
Ian Russell
DIRECTOR FOR THE SCREEN