Bengali play staged at Bangalore lauded

Young theatre actress Gulshanara Khatun is on cloud nine. She was appreciated for her latest play Code-Red at CJK National Theatre Festival in Bangalore recently. “It was our 11th show and we were the only Bengali group performing there,”

Gulshanara

said. Directed by Indudipa Sinha, Code-Red is based on Rabindranath Tagore’s Shishutirtha and French novelist

Matei Visniec

’s The Body of a Woman at a Battlefield in Bosnian War. “The play starts with a conversation between a woman who was mass raped in war and an army camp psychiatrist. It delves into the raw adversities of war on human psychology,” the actor added.

Dinesh Poddar

, who has designed the lights for the play, was also appreciated at the show.