Sudhanya Basu remembers a childhood surrounded by Bengali culture. Growing up in Kharagpur, India, she spent days reading Satyajit Ray’s mystery novels and...
“I wanted to bring like-minded people together … and give them a free hand to express their artistic sensibilities,” Bhattacharyya said.Advertisement, written by Basu, is a bilingual play about an immigrant to the U.S. remembering his time as a student in India in the 1970s. Back then, a movement about income inequality in Calcutta erupted into violent protests at Presidency University.
DFW Play Youth Theater actors perform a scene from The One Forgotten during the Fest O’ Theatre festival at the Moody Performance Hall in Dallas, July 8, 2023. The Bengali theatre festival featured performances by Ebong Theatrix DFW Play and BAAT .The One, Forgotten“Earlier, we mostly [performed] adaptations of writings from Bengal’s rich literary history. Rajarshi started conceptualizing how we can create original works of art and asked me to write something,” Basu said.
Vedant Bhattacharyya, 18, son of DFW Play’s founder Rajarshi Bhattacharyya, played Anik, the protagonist of. He’s been acting in DFW Play shows since the fifth grade and said it has helped him learn about Bengali culture. Fest O’ Theatre was also a stage for Bengali artists outside of Dallas. Washington D.C.-based company Ebong Theatrix put on, a farcical play about a woman coming back from the dead. San Francisco-based group BAAT performedRajarshi Bhattacharyya said that he hopes events like Fest O’ Theatre help to tell the unique story of Bengali immigrants in the U.S.
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